How to prevent my .exe to be recognized as malware?

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I have written a little tool a few days ago (see Github project here) that works as a single .exe portable file. It is compiled/linked with:

cl mytool.c

I have uploaded the .exe on internet, but when people try to download it (direct link here), the file is seen as malware / potential threat, and thus can't be downloaded. (Note that when disabling antivirus for 10 minutes, it is possible to download it successfully.)

How to compile/link my tool so that my .exe file is seen as potential threat?

Most anti-virus companies have a whitelisting process for false positives. — Harry Johnston, Mar 08 '15 at 01:49
@HarryJohnston Yes, but then I have to re-do this each time I do a new build of the `.exe`, and for each anti-virus company (Avast, Kaspersky, etc.).... Such a long process for a small freeware tool :( — Basj, Mar 08 '15 at 10:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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You may be able to get around this problem by putting a password on the zip file or rar file. The only thing is that you would then have to hand the password where the file is downloaded from so that users can get into it.

If you want some more information on this you could read this page: Getting around Chrome's Malicious File Warning

Hope this helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered Mar 07 '15 at 20:59

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How to prevent my .exe to be recognized as malware?

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