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When I posted about a virus being detected, apparently Kenny replied but then the forum got converted into normal comments so it's gone. That doesn't exactly make things less suspicious.

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Yeah sorry I’m still wrapping my head around Itch as a platform, didn’t realise it was comments OR discussion boards and activating one closed the other. Apologies,  noob move and not one that  builds trust either I guess given the topic..
PiN is built using a standard Unity setup so I’m surprised and actually pretty worried that any virus software is flagging it tbh, definitely not right and so sorry it's happening. I’m not even entirely sure what to do about it - do you mind me asking which antivirus you are using? The game demo is also available on Steam if you’d feel more comfortable accessing the game via that platform but the code is the same on both so I guess not, sorry again I’ll see what I can do 

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Newer Windows systems pretend that anything Microsoft hasn't whitelisted as popular is a virus (it pops up a 'security warning' message that suggests a risk of viruses from using software the megacorporation isn't aware of, which I've seen many less-sophisticated computer users interpret as a virus detection).  I don't think there's anything you can do about it without specifically engaging with Microsoft or having the software become very popular, but it's true for most home-made games (e.g. the vast majority of games on itch) not by somebody with a well-established portfolio. If the game becomes popular the problem will fix itself.  It's just a way to try and shut down independent development so as to further hegemonize corporate power.


It's possible there's some other thing it triggered for that user; I'm not getting a 'rarely used' security warning after downloading, but I'm not getting any warning at all so I'm guessing that's it.