I'm a little bit worried because windows defender flagged picotron.exe as a Malware after executing it in my computer.
Also in virustotal there are some sites that consider it as malware too
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/acaf5a25a366fa2e2a28fa3994af276da696412726f48aba76eded4503e6eb5e
Can you confirm the binary is safe?
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@zep - may be worth uploading all binaries pre-release to VirusTotal ...I have a distant memory this can help with whitelisting...
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I hope this is sorted out, because i’m very hyped with picotron, but i don’t want to disable windows defender to run it.
Meanwhile it would be nice to have a linux/arm64 version to run it on a raspberry pi
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Hi! Windows defender doesn't detect for me (in version 1e), but VirusTotal.com does.
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bitdefender goes into direct alert.
he kills him straight away.
No problems with previous versions of picotron
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Just purchased and installed BitDefender but it doesn't detect any trojan in the picotron.exe file... I don't undestand anything...
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the problem only comes from Windows version 0.1.0e
Impossible to download it because my antivirus blocks it, if I force the download it destroys the zip, if I force it and use it it contaminates my Roaming directory.
there is a real virus on this version 0.1.0e which prevents me from using it
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I can post screenshots to you if needed.
my anti virus is bitdefender ultimate security
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THB, I don't think Picotron.exe is infected with any Trojan. (Or at least that is what I want to believe :)
Probably since it is a binary that contains some scripting engine, it raises some alarms in some AV software. But in any case it would be nice to have a real confirmation from the picrotron developers themselves.
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My bitdefender finally detected the trojan and deleted the exe a few days ago... I'm waiting for a clean release of picotron for Windows.
Not sure if Zep knows about the problem in Windows version
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Thanks @misterjbam, can you keep us posted with the reply?
I was playing a little bit with Picotron before Windows Defender deleted it and I'm a little bit worried if it was harmful or not.
As I said before, I don't think so, but it would be ok to have a "official" confirmation that the binary was safe
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Saw this thread and I did not have any problems with 0.1.0f until this thread scared me from actually being excited for the fantasy machine. (which was a few hours into going mad with downloading several carts to my Amiga-lookin funny thingy.) I fear about viruses like how Superman would try not to get jumpscared by kryptonite - so of course when I saw this, I trembled and I looked EVER-SO-CLOSELY at my appdata folder. (im on windows, so yeah I have the right to be piss-scared.)
I now have downgraded to 0.1.0e and I'm not even gonna try to touch it too much until this gets cleared up, hopefully for good. I even tried to contact zep on Mastodon (https://mastodon.online/@loser9000/112232000626606622), but I'm guessing that posting stuff like this is just... maybe pathetic? I don't know.
So what I'm really getting at here, is PLEASE UPDATE ME ON THIS THREAD I DON'T WANT ANOTHER VIRUS, COME ON MAN.
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zep and lexaloffle are trustworthy. if you download over https with a good browser (firefox), you hare no reason to fear. anti-virus programs are not perfect, that’s all.
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BUT THE SPOOKS OF THEVARUS™ LEECHES LIKE THE RED SCARE WOULD.
IT NIBBLES ME AWAY UNTIL I TURN GREY.
(https://imgur.com/a/YJKrSfp yall're getting no context on the funny I sent here.)
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UPDATE: I just scanned Picotron version 0.1.0g on VirusTotal.
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WE WIN THEEEEEESE!
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