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(See the best response by Lummox JR.)
Descriptive Problem Summary:
Dream seeker often gets flagged as a virus whenever a new update comes out.

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
1. Be in the first to update byond
2. dreamseeker.exe suddently goes missing or execution is denied and byond throws cryptic errors(Could not run dreamseeker.exe (error 00000002). Perhaps you should reinstall BYOND?) or it just shows what its trying to execute in a popup (path\to\dreamseeker.exe "byond://BYOND.world.worldnumberhere" -pager)

Expected Results:
Obviously, BYOND can't just make itself "not a false positive" but it could display an error message that says what happened ie that BYOND cant find/cant run dreamseeker.exe and to double check the antivirus.


Actual Results:
BYOND throws weird errors that don't actually mean anything(to most people) but can 90% of the time be attributed to AV false positives.

Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often? Whenever theres a new version and AVs go mad
In other games? Yes
In other user accounts? Yes
On other computers? Yes, on several AVs

When does the problem NOT occur? After a while when the AVs definitions don't flag BYOND for the 50th million time

Workarounds:
Ask questions on various discords until someone with arcane knowledge remembers the cryptic errors and points out the AV as the fault at which point you can add an exception for dreamseeker.

I guess this is more a feature request than a bug report but it would be helpful nonetheless
Best response
If the .exe is eaten by antivirus, there's no way for it to display a message.

The solution is to report false positives to the antivirus software creator, and also use better antivirus software.
Surely there's a way to convey the info that the exe is gone thats less cryptic than "path\to\dreamseeker.exe "byond://BYOND.world.worldnumberhere" -pager" in a nameless popup
A note: It's Windows' built in AV that flags BYOND, and it's kinda hard to switch from that.