I wrote a program in Python that needs to perform tasks on the browser with Selenium. I build a one-file exe and tried to run it on my Windows machine, yet Windows seems to recognize it as some malware and immediately removes it. Is this a thing?

CodePudding user response：

Python scripts that are packed into an exe, are often used to make maleware. Thats why av (anti virus) engines often produce false positives with these files. If you want to see what other av engines think about your file you can use VirusTotal.

CodePudding user response：

There is a lot of malware that is created in python and compiled into exe files, so a lot of anti-virus scanners tend to falsely flag these as malware unfortunately. I think the easiest thing to do it just add your development folder to the list of safe folders in Windows defender.