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#144 EXEs built with Launch4j are being flagged by Windows Defender as virus Trojan:Win32/repjexi

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2018-08-11
2016-01-18
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EXEs built with Launch4j are being flagged by Windows Defender as virus Trojan:Win32/repjexi on Windows 10 (and maybe others). This is clearly a false positive, but we cannot release software to people that is flagged as a virus. Does anyone know why this is or a way to avoid this problem?

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  • Kevin Theisen

    Kevin Theisen - 2016-01-18

    I'm using the latest Launch4j package, v3.8

     
  • Grzegorz Kowal

    Grzegorz Kowal - 2016-03-02

    Try signing the output executable with digital certificate issued by a trusted root authority. The other option would be to use a launcher instead of wrapping the jar, if that does not help sign it as well.

    Grzegorz

     
  • Markus Gothe

    Markus Gothe - 2018-08-11

    Try fixing the PE checksum by a tool for doing that (Google will find those for

     

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