# Virus alarm for standalone executable

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/virus-alarm-for-standalone-executable/6003>\
**Category:** Other\
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/virus-alarm-for-standalone-executable/6003 "2018-12-03T10:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![TorgeMS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@TorgeMS](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/TorgeMS)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/virus-alarm-for-standalone-executable/6003/1 "2018-12-03T10:16:34Z")

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Hi,  
I just wanted to mention that the virus heuristics of the popular [Avira Antivir](https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-windows) produce a hopefully (😉) false alarm (_HEUR/AGEN1008709_) for the PsychoPy Standalone executables (at least versions 1.90.2, 1.90.3, 3.0.0b11, and 3.0.0b12 on Windows 7) and immediately put them under quarantine, which is annoying. Unfortunately, the [info link](https://www.avira.com/en/support-threats-summary-product?tid=147932&threat=HEUR&track=1) it provides is not very helpful.