stockfish.exe marked by AVG free antivirus

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dbuske
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stockfish.exe marked by AVG free antivirus

Post by dbuske »

I keep marking stockfish that I trust it, but AVG keeps marking it as with virus.
AVG seems not it care.
Maybe Stockfish staff should contact AVG to stop marking stockfish.exe bad
Daniel J. Buske
Sesse
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Re: stockfish.exe marked by AVG free antivirus

Post by Sesse »

The generally accepted solution for this is to have the Stockfish team sign their binaries with some certificate. That is much more likely to get it whitelisted than anything else.
syzygy
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Re: stockfish.exe marked by AVG free antivirus

Post by syzygy »

But this is probably not about the "official" SF9 stockfish.exe binary on stockfishchess.org. (Or maybe it is?)