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Antivirus False Positives update

Scavenger SV-4 · published 10 Jul 2018, 15:03 UTC

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At this point in time the UPX compressed version of the executable shows a false positive in fewer AV programs than the uncompressed versions I sent out in the v1.09 patch, so I've re-enabled compression in a v1.095 patch.

This (as of now, at least) should stop the built in windows 10 bitdefender AV from triggering - though there are false positives at this time from several other popular products.

My next steps will be submitting reports to all the AV software providers, since changing the game to match the moving target they seem to require appears not to work well.

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