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Penlight

A visual novel where you hypnotize cute girls and feel bad about it (in development) · By Angela DeMille

version 0.1522.2 set off my antivirus (might be a false positive)

A topic by ariadrakeblood created Jul 13, 2020 Views: 298 Replies: 1
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Every time I open up and run the latest version of Penlight, windows makes a complaint; it's almost never seen this program before, and there's no security certificate or whatever to vouch for it. Its the curse of indie development, and I usually ignore it (I've already ran early updates of Penlight, so running the latest version isn't really that much riskier...)

This time, however, with update Source-0.1522.2, my antivirus *freaked out* saying that Penlight.exe was acting suspiciously in a recognizably malware way (it gave me a name, but I didn't catch it), and it wanted permission to isolate the program. Next thing I know it's saying it failed and is rebooting my PC.

When I got back online I scanned the Source-0.1522.2 folder and found nothing wrong (and no files missing?) so it's possible it's a false positive (it's also possible that the program only looks suspicious to my antivirus while running? Idk I'm not that kind of programmer)

Now, I don't think Angela would purposefully put malware in the game, but I figure it's worth bringing attention to; 0.1522.2 *has* set off a user's antivirus program. Anyone who worked on or has played that version of Penlight should probably run a scan on their computer just to be safe.

If it turns out it was nothing then I apologize for creating this thread; I'd hate to give this game bad press if there's nothing actually wrong.

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Yeah, looks like a false positive to me. I asked around on my discord server and no one else seems to have encountered anything, and the .zip package was checked out on VirusTotal and found nothing untoward. Not to mention this release has been in the wild a couple of days now, downloaded to a couple hundred people, and no one else from the wider community seems to have had any sort of trouble with it. I'd say we're good~