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Last week, I found this by chance for my own game, thinking "what does it look like when you submit it through virustotal?" Indeed, there was a false positive on the latest version at the time. I went looking for an answer and found that it was due to the packaging and encryption of the game code in the exe. The solution was therefore to separate the game engine from the game data, as indicated, and following this I have not had any new false positives (for now).

(I imagine that some antiviruses must find it suspicious that a portion of an executable is particularly obfuscated or encrypted)

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I imagine that some antiviruses must find it suspicious that a portion of an executable is particularly obfuscated or encrypted

How dare they! It is perfectly reasonable to have code obfuscation and encryption and clever packing algorithms for user level leisure applications. Those things are a vital part of the gaming experience. Nothing suspicious going on here. Move along.

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Thanks! While exporting past builds of my game to my friend to playtest it, it was flagged as a virus. I'll try exporting it as a zip file.

Virus-chan strikes again.