My mod has antivirus issues

[Goblins Productions]

Hello Zdoomers.

I have a mod just released. Because I want it to be one-click launch, with desktop icon and stuff. I created a bat file, and used bat2exe.
Then I used NSIS to make an installer, that also optionally installs GZdoom, so all the end user really needs to do is get Doom 2.

But there is a problem. After installing it on other PC, Avira antivirus says it is "TR/Drop.Agent"
WTF, it literally just launches gzdoom.

Are there any alternative ways of achieving it. I dont care about the icon much, but I want my mod to be one-click launch.

[wildweasel]

it is probably because of the way it's packaged. Virus scanners, Avira especially, love to trip false-positives for things like bat2exe, UPX, or any other kind of EXE wrapper, because they're often used to obfuscate or otherwise hide malicious things.

[Rachael]

What do you need a .bat for?

If you need a custom GZDoom compile specifically for your mod, let me know and I can personalize GZDoom for you. But it comes with two caveats:

- I will distribute the source for the changes as a Github fork.
- The mod itself must still work with a real copy of GZDoom, independently of the newly compiled version.

[Goblins Productions]

I need a bat that automatically loads my mod and sets some cvars, like mouselook.
It is literally just:

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gzdoom.exe -file dtsotb7pre.wad +exec dtsot_default.cfg

I don't really want to create my own version of gzdoom.
I will try to make a launcher in C++, and see what it does.

[Rachael]

Just rename your current config to gzdoom.ini then, and it will be the default. Alternatively you can just name the config autoexec.cfg.