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The file is marked as a virus by both Chrome and Windows

That sounds strange. That one time Chrome warned me about a virus, it was a virus.

That being said, the usual warning users get is that the file was downloaded from the internet. And was not "signed".

The funny part is, that having a signed exe is actually a bad sign for a game downloaded on Itch (one does not sign a ever changing exe for a hobby project or even as a small time developer). That one time I found such a thing, it was a virus with a faked signage. Yes, it was faked, that system is compromised. As I understand they hacked or faked a company in that signage-system.

Godot is infamous for triggering false positives. But that the threat was named specifically is concerning. Although it seems kinda a generic name for a downloader and data stealer family of malware that might get false positives because of that.

Thanks for the reply, it looks like Chrome doesn't detect the file as a virus, it downloads the file completely and only then after the Windows Defender trigger it is marked as a virus. I looked into the problem more deeply and it looks like the problem is in the .zip files, for some reason they are sometimes marked as a virus, maybe should try changing the file compression type.

That one time it happened to me, Chrome screamed at my at the time of downloading. I knew it was a virus, I just wanted to see what it looks like on virustotal. Was an obvious one and uploaded to Itch. So I was curious, why Itch's scanners did not detect it. It turned out to be even more ridiculous since even Chrome screamed at me. Or maybe it was the Defender. It was not distinguishable for me at that time.

If it is actual zip files, that is strange. Maybe compressing Godot files makes them look suspicous. Godot packed exe often trigger. They do clever things inside that. Zipping it again might be seen as a circumvention method.