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Note on PyInstaller's bootloader being flagged by Anti-virus software
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**Note on PyInstaller's bootloader being flagged by Anti-virus software**
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PyInstaller's bootloader for Windows (runw.exe) has [12/67 false-positives](https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/798b3c1cd233c4c025af7445718176bdb46014e3ceb25ef12df41a6a25af2fc5/detection)
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reported by Anti-virus software when scanning with virustotal.com and the maintainers of
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PyInstaller have no plans to fix that, see https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2501
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for details. If this is a problem for you then you might consider using py2exe or cx_Freeze
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packagers instead, however there are no official examples for these available.
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## When it succeeds
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