Windows 10 thinks my QB64 programs are a virus

[paulel]

Has anyone else had (or having) this problem?
Windows 10 thinks my QB64 programs are a virus
It will delete the EXE file and/or stop me from running my program
It will even kill the program while it is running

Can anyone please help??

Thank you

[TerryRitchie]

Has anyone else had (or having) this problem?
Windows 10 thinks my QB64 programs are a virus
It will delete the EXE file and/or stop me from running my program
It will even kill the program while it is running

Can anyone please help??

Thank you

Exclude your QB64 folder in your anti-virus program. Is this a recent install or one you've been using successfully up until now?

[paulel]

I've had the laptop for several months.
This problem with windows started about 2 weeks ago.

Windows itself is trying to block the programs. How do i get Windows to allow (or ignore) the pgroams?

[SMcNeill]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...01afe13b26

[mnrvovrfc]

Make sure you unpacked the contents of QB64PE ZIP file into a folder of your choice inside your user's account: C:\Users\(yourname)", without double-quotation marks and "(yourname)" is the actual name of the user you put in so you could log into Windows.

Do not install QB64PE on top of an existing installation, and do not do it inside "Program Files" or other protected area by Windows.

Do you run the QB64PE IDE? The advice has to be followed at the first run, cannot be left until later. You must enter Windows Defender settings and figure out how to exclude from virus scanning the entire QB64PE directory, not just the QB64PE.EXE executable. That way your programs created inside QB64PE directory aren't marked by ebil virus checker.

[paulel]

I'm actually still running QB64 1.2 (been using this version for years now)
Still trying to figure how to get Windows Defender to ignore QB64 EXEs.

[mnrvovrfc]

I forgot to mention, do not install QB64PE as "C:\QB64PE" or alike, directly under C: drive because it could be removed upon "Reset Windows" option. If QB64PE is installed into your user's account you have a better chance of backing it up before picking that option which should be last recourse.

That's a fairly early version of QB64, definitely before there was such thing as Phoenix Edition. The likelihood increases you want to try out one of the programs listed on this site and it doesn't work because you have an outdated copy and the program was meant to work in the latest version of QB64PE. For example, if you want to try something with playing back MIDI files rendered from Soundfonts ($UNSTABLE yet as we speak) it will not be supported in a version of QB64 which is not Phoenix Edition, and will not be supported in a version of QB64PE earlier than the current which is v3.6.

If you want a link to download the latest QB64PE, no matter which one it is, just visit the main page of this site and look for the web link which is near the bottom. It is written clearly. It will take you to Github where you could find the ZIP package for the Windows version of QB64PE.

The link is under "Official Links", the last one listed in that category.

[SMcNeill]

I'm actually still running QB64 1.2 (been using this version for years now)
Still trying to figure how to get Windows Defender to ignore QB64 EXEs.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...01afe13b26

[aurel]

I never have problem with any version of qb64 ..even VirusTotal do not complain about it
YES ...1 never use qb64 or anything from C disk

[bplus]

I haven't had a false virus alert from Windows 10 but as Brooke says extract the QB64 files onto Desktop, Downloads, Documents,... someplace your have user access, NOT C:\ or C:\Programs as Windows owns that part of C: