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[fractilegames]

After adding online high-score support (simple HTTP REST api) to my PC game, a lot of virus protection tools seem to now think it's malware. Virustotal.com shows a few detections. I posted false detection reports to some of their manufacturers and had the game white-listed for example by Symantec. Still, Chrome shows a warning on download and some virus scanners cause trouble.

I assume the problem is the code that connects to server to send high-scores. Heuristic malware scanners think that its doing something bad. I have been Googling, but haven't found any useful information on how to change my implementation to prevent false detections or at least make them less frequent.

Have others faced a problem like this and how have you dealt with it?

[kamac]

perhaps using ssl would fix some detections.

[Layl]

I doubt there's a clear way to prevent detection as malware, as that would exactly mean that malware developers can use that to prevent being detected as well.

[fractilegames]

Would signing my executables with a proper commercial code signing certificate prevent false malware detections too? At least it should get rid of Windows (SmartScreen) warnings and possibly help with browser download warnings too.

[Snowstorm]

Check out this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252226/signing-a-windows-exe-file

Seems like it has a few solutions.