I've created a C#.NET application for research purposes which is certainly not a virus. I packaged it in an MSI installer and put it on Drive for researchers in my lab to download. However, Drive reports the following message when others try to download it:
3Sorry, this file is infected with a virus
Only the owner is allowed to download infected files.
1 Answer
Two possibilities come to mind:
Once or twice a decade I get my code flagged as a virus by one of the major engines. The culprit appears to be sloppy security work, the compiler was used to write a virus and they identified some library code as a signature. (When this has happened I have been far from alone.)
Also, Google is quite hostile to executable content. You don't need a password, just change the extension. Someone who can't change it back shouldn't be downloading executable content in the first place so this isn't a big problem.
