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Just finished my first proper program, I have now published it so it can be run through an .EXE rather than a visual studio. The issue I am coming up against is that my antivirus views the application as a threat and constantly scans it and prevents it access to run. Would I need to build a security certificate to prevent this? Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Owen

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  • Which antivirus are you using? – Ruban J Aug 02 '16 at 09:49
  • Which antivirus progrgam? – TTomer Aug 02 '16 at 09:50
  • avast, im just looking to stop the it preventing me access. even if i run as administrator it prevents it from running. (the programs a CSV to SQL converter) – Englishman Aug 02 '16 at 09:55
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    Possible duplicate of [False positive detection of c# .net program by anti-virus as trojan](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30683518/false-positive-detection-of-c-sharp-net-program-by-anti-virus-as-trojan) – Matt Wilko Aug 02 '16 at 10:01

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You need to tell the antivirus program to exclude it from considering as dangerous. Check out the menus of the antivirus checker. This happens very often when you are scanning the disk to find things. But the sensitivity depends on the virus scanner.

Signing your app with trusted certificate also eliminates suspicion in most of antivirus progs. But this will not work for some antivirus like Norton Internet Security etc.

Depending on the anti virus, you can exclude/White list them.

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