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Virus Detection

The Eternal Farm software is primarily coded using Golang, a high performance programming language that originated from Google.

An unfortunate side effect of the way that Golang builds and compiles binaries is that certain anti virus distributions like Windows Defender may flag the software as a virus / trojan.

You can read more about this on the Golang docs here: https://go.dev/doc/faq#virus

Rest assured, you can be certain that our software is entirely legitimate and trustworthy.

If you are a Windows user, we recommend adding a folder exception to your anti virus settings, file exceptions are not recommended as usually they stop working when the software is updated.

  1. Create a folder for the Eternal Farm software to be downloaded into, for example: C:\EternalFarm

  2. Open the Virus & thread protection settings window by searching for this in your start menu:
    Step 2

  3. In the window that opens, click on Manage settings:
    Step 3

  4. Scroll to the bottom and click on Add or remove exclusions:
    Step 4

  5. Click on the Add an exclusion button followed by the Folder option:
    Step 5

  6. Select the folder you created in Step 1:
    Step 5