Does your antivirus quarantine, block or remove the GameTranslate installer or files that it uses?

Do not worry, these are not viruses.

They are 'false-positives' - files that look and act similarly to viruses, but without doing harm or having the intention to do so.

Why does this happen?

Well, these problems have always existed, but they are likely more common now than they were 15 years ago. This is mainly because of machine learning. While it can do a great job, it can also create a lot of headaches for software developers.

why..?

When these machine-learned antiviruses get trained, it is based on malware code. Great! Right? Well, yes, and no. The malware code will undoubtedly contain a lot of code snippets that exist in millions of other software programs. This leads to false positives. Files that get flagged as viruses even though they do nothing malicious whatsoever.

Just like your fellow machine-learned ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok.. you name it. They all get things wrong from time to time.

Can you not fix it?

Again, yes aaaand... no. It is not up to me to make these virus reports to stop. That's up to the antivirus developers.

However, I will try my best to file false positive reports to them, and hopefully, they will examine it, manually make exceptions for these files or retrain their machine-learned models.

I have also created an issue on Rust langs GitHub, where it is confirmed to be an issue with the antivirus vendors, and not with the programming language itself, nor GameTranslate.