EXE is detected as Trojan virus by Windows Defender

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The releases of STDF Viewer are generally built by the latest version of PyInstaller, which may result in false virus detection:
pyinstaller/pyinstaller#5854

For those of you who still worries about the virus, you can do one of the following:

• Wait for the Windows Security updates to exclude pyinstaller-generated executables.
• Add STDF Viewer to the whitelist.
• Build the app on your own Windows machine, you can refer to the GitHub actions for the detailed steps:
  

  STDF-Viewer/.github/workflows/build.yml

  Lines 203 to 276 in 66a52c0

  	windows-cp39:
  	# The type of runner that the job will run on
  	runs-on: windows-latest
  	# Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
  	steps:
  	# Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
  	- uses: actions/checkout@v2
  	- name: Setup Python
  	uses: actions/[email protected]
  	with:
  	# known bug when using pyinstaller 4.7 in python 3.9.8
  	python-version: 3.9.5
  	architecture: x64
  	- name: Set Mingw as default
  	working-directory: .
  	run: |
  	# add distutils.cfg
  	python -c "import os, distutils; f=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(distutils.__file__), 'distutils.cfg'), 'w'); f.writelines('[build]\ncompiler = mingw32\n\n[build_ext]\ncompiler=mingw32'); f.close()"
  	# add a patch to cygwinccompiler.py
  	python -c "import os, distutils, string; cypath=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(distutils.__file__), 'cygwinccompiler.py'); patchpath=os.path.join('.github', 'workflows', 'cy.patch'); command='patch -u '+cypath+' '+patchpath; os.system(command)"
  	- uses: suisei-cn/actions-download-file@v1
  	id: numpy_vanilla
  	name: Download numpy vanilla
  	with:
  	url: "https://download.lfd.uci.edu/pythonlibs/w6tyco5e/numpy-1.21.4+vanilla-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl"
  	target: "mydownloads"
  	- name: Install numpy vanilla
  	run: |
  	cd mydownloads
  	pip install ${{steps.numpy_vanilla.outputs.filename}}
  	- name: Install dependencies
  	run: |
  	pip install -r requirements.txt
  	- name: Compile cystdf module
  	working-directory: ./deps/cystdf
  	run: |
  	python cystdf_amalgamation_setup.py build_ext --inplace --compile=mingw32
  	- name: Customize Pyinstaller
  	working-directory: .
  	run: |
  	# patch two pys
  	python -c "import os, PyInstaller; \
  	qthook=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(PyInstaller.__file__), 'utils', 'hooks', 'qt.py'); \
  	rthooks=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(PyInstaller.__file__), 'hooks', 'rthooks.dat'); \
  	qtpatchpath=os.path.join('.github', 'workflows', 'qt.py.patch'); \
  	rthookpatchpath=os.path.join('.github', 'workflows', 'rthooks.dat.patch'); \
  	command1='patch -u '+qthook+' '+qtpatchpath; \
  	command2='patch -u '+rthooks+' '+rthookpatchpath; \
  	os.system(command1); \
  	os.system(command2); \
  	print(command1); print(command2)"
  	# delete some hooks
  	python build_tools/removePyinstallerHooks.py
  	- name: Freeze app
  	working-directory: .
  	run: |
  	pyinstaller build_tools\\windows.spec
  	# - name: Print SPEC File
  	# run: |
  	# Get-ChildItem -Path . *.spec | ForEach-Object {cat $_.Name}
  	- name: Clean dist folder
  	run: |
  	python build_tools/clean.py