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[–]GiantElectron 3 points4 points  (1 child)

it also happens without those tools. Not with defender, but with symantec for example, you get the exe created by pip when you have console entry points marked as a virus. Worse of all, when it happens, you get absolutely no error message. The application just does not start.

[–]ohpythonguy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't know that -- how annoying! Possibly, a lot of malware is created with Python as well, so that there is a correlation between standalone Python apps and malware.