I've found that other Godot developers have experienced similar antivirus false positives with their exported games, so it might be related to the export itself.
I'll investigate the issue and try to find a solution. I'll also try to submit the game for review to Microsoft and Google so hopefully these warnings won't happen again in the future.
Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for letting me know! ❤
Edit:
Ran a few tests, the exe and dll are clean, a handful of programs are flagging some heuristic ("lazy") irregularities specifically in the .pck, which is Godot's file that contains the scripts, among other things. Windows Defender actually states clearly that it got blocked because the app might run scripts from the console, and it just so happens one script opens a link to my socials (so, the browser). That might be getting picked up as a violation and the antivirus panics.
I'm not 100% sure this is the main cause, but I'll test it over the weekend, and if it improves things I'll push a fix. Right now I've got limited access to my PC, so there's not much I can do about it at the moment.
Thanks again for pointing this out. You can safely run the game after accepting the file in Windows Defender, or just wait for the fix (if it actually helps). The bug only happens on some machines, none of my testers hit it, so it was a tricky one to catch.
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I've found that other Godot developers have experienced similar antivirus false positives with their exported games, so it might be related to the export itself.
I'll investigate the issue and try to find a solution. I'll also try to submit the game for review to Microsoft and Google so hopefully these warnings won't happen again in the future.
Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for letting me know! ❤
Edit:
Ran a few tests, the exe and dll are clean, a handful of programs are flagging some heuristic ("lazy") irregularities specifically in the .pck, which is Godot's file that contains the scripts, among other things. Windows Defender actually states clearly that it got blocked because the app might run scripts from the console, and it just so happens one script opens a link to my socials (so, the browser). That might be getting picked up as a violation and the antivirus panics.
I'm not 100% sure this is the main cause, but I'll test it over the weekend, and if it improves things I'll push a fix. Right now I've got limited access to my PC, so there's not much I can do about it at the moment.
Thanks again for pointing this out. You can safely run the game after accepting the file in Windows Defender, or just wait for the fix (if it actually helps). The bug only happens on some machines, none of my testers hit it, so it was a tricky one to catch.