ez-reset marked as Trojan virus

[KaveSys]

Hello,
Sorry but seems that the ez-reset file is marked as a Trojan:win32/Yomal!rfn from Microsoft. Also from VirusTotal same thing.

Please, make sure you are doing the right thing 😉

[CiRIP]

Yeah, unfortunately most executables created with pyinstaller get (falsely) flagged by security software since it's also a simple way people use to make malware. It'll also seem fishy to sandbox analysis tools since the first thing the program will do is enumerate all printers. I think certain versions/configurations of pyinstaller might get fewer false positives, but I haven't had time to look into it. Signing the executable would also help and would eliminate the SmartScreen notice, but that requires purchasing a certificate which is not in my plans.

If you need the tool and distrust the exe, you can clone this repo and run the source code directly via your local copy of Python. Feel free to also analyze the binary yourself, since it's a pyinstaller executable you can browse its contents with 7zip.

When I have the time, I'll look into creating a GitHub Actions workflow to build .exes the same way epson_print_conf does it, since I see that one has fewer false positives.

I'll leave this issue open until I can find a way to reliably avoid false positives on the executable.

[CiRIP]

I've published a new release which I signed with a recently obtained code signing certificate. Shoutout to https://www.certum.eu/ for providing cheap certificates to open source developers. I've also disabled UPX packing, meaning heuristics which trigger on UPX should hopefully stop triggering, at the expense of a 2MB larger executable.

Let me know if you get any other flags on the latest executable.

[CiRIP]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6556a058a8ca8f3ff668d26e5a831060aed2df557cd993fa1afb9516905d1e28/detection

It seems the executable has gone at least a week without any false positive flags, so this seems to have definitely helped. I'm closing the issue as resolved unless the issue resurfaces.