To be fair to Windows Defender, a PyInstaller binary does look like malware. If it didn’t do this out of the box, it would become a standard way for malware to

To be fair to Windows Defender, a PyInstaller binary does look like malware. If it didn’t do this out of the box, it would become a standard way for malware to be distributed very quickly. Unfortunately for every person trying compile or run a valid python program from the net on a Windows PC, there’s a 1000 malware/Trojan instances trying to infect one. Ideally code signing / validation would be cheaper https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/e99bhe/comment/fahcknk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/e99bhe/comment...