gridcontrol-1.0.9.exe flagged as "Trojan:Win32/Zpevdo.A"

[samb0rg]

Windows 7 x64 - latest Defender definitions.

Extracted the latest GridControl and had the .exe auto removed for the reason stated in the title.....?

Can't see it mentioned anywhere else?

[samb0rg]

Additional info: Doesn't happen with 1.0.8.exe

[akej74]

Hi, I checked all files in the 1.0.9 release ZIP with Windows Defender (on a newly installed Windows 10 machine with latest updates), no warnings. I'm packaging Grid Control with PyInstaller and there have been several reports of false warnings in the past, see e.g. pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2866

Note that this problem is not related to PyInstaller; the antivirus vendors need to update their signature files, as seems to be the case with latest Windows Defender (as it gives no warning).

[morgano86]

Same here... Grid Control 1.0.9 is being flagged as Trojan:Win32/Zpevdo.A on Windows 10 by Windows Defender.

[akej74]

Hi, as mentioned earlier, this is a false positive due to the packaging with PyInstaller. It has been brought up several times on the PyInstaller repo. One thing to try is to download the Grid Control source and package it with the latest version of PyInstaller (as PyInstaller is frequently updated).

Easy to follow instructions are available here: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/v3.3.1/index.html