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Oh boy, even 7-zip is throwing a fit about this game, it wont even let me open it because it's calling it a virus, after which it straight-up deleted the file.

I'm a trained computer technician and I've never seen 7-zip do that before. Heck, Windows Defender didn't even have time to respond. Redownloading it made my browser nervous and autodelete it too.

You sure your computer itself is clean? If your projects regularly trip people's AV often enough to mention it in the game's description, my assumption would be that your PC has a legitimate virus and it's bad enough to be infecting your files.

Oceanaga99 days ago (1 edit)

Haha yeah, I promise it's clean (infrastructure engineer here).

This is a common occurrence with Unity (my guess is it has something to do with all the telemetry they collect now for advertising and what not), a quick google will show this. I run Malwarebytes on everything I upload along with virus checker, which I have linked above.

As for the game being flagged, I'm going to see if there's something I can disable so this doesn't happen in future builds.

Edit: I've done some digging and I can go about signing the builds but that requires a LOT of money to set up. I'll tinker with some distribution options and see if maybe it's the file being in a zip that does it. Either way, this is very high on my priority list to fix.

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