So I sent my game's first bit to a tester to make sure it all worked fine, but they had a virus popup warning of a virus in the rgss3 and stuff. Figuring it was just a bad antivirus, I sent it to another tester who also had the same issue.
Not only this, but Chrome seems to be detecting the file as malware and blocking it because it is an .exe.
How can I fix this?
Virus being detected on most Windows 8 computers?
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Send it to me.
Chrome blocks exes by default. It DOES give the option to open it anyway, but it doesn't make it obvious. Are you just compressing your project and sending them the result? I would extract it into a new folder, and then zip up that folder using WinRAR and send them the zipped file instead of the exe. -
What Shaz said. The exe file made by the compression feature of VX Ace is unrecognized by any windows system with default or higher security settings. You're better off compressing the project, extracting the files and then using winrar to pack the extracfted files into a single downloadable.
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Ok.Send it to me.
Chrome blocks exes by default. It DOES give the option to open it anyway, but it doesn't make it obvious. Are you just compressing your project and sending them the result? I would extract it into a new folder, and then zip up that folder using WinRAR and send them the zipped file instead of the exe.
Yeah, I did manage to fix it on the two tester's computers, going through the long-winded (and threatening-sounding!) method to get it on the computer via Chrome. One of them still had the whole antivirus issue, but the other had a different antivirus so there we no issues beyond Chrome on the second computer.
I will try zipping it in future, though it is likely that the antiviruses might still pick up the 'compressed' project/extracted files if there is an issue or suchlike with the antivirus program(s).