WithSecure antivirus flags a lot of rust executables

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The company I am working for wants to introduce Rust into their own ecosystem.
However, they are using WithSecure security suite, and it flags almost every single Rust tool I want to install (cbindgen, grcov, etc.) independent on whether I compile them through cargo or download executables.

The only solution I found so far is to delete that software, which, in this context, is a no-go.

Another solution would be to whitelist required executables, but doing this for every single tool is painful, and would require everyone to install the tooling not from cargo, but from our private storage.

Usually it complains about build scripts, but not always, here is an example:

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Maybe somebody had to deal with something similar, would be glad for your help.

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Have you contacted the support of WithSecure?

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Had very similar experience with BitDefender, but unfortunately, I never found a good solution (except dump BitDefender in the trash, but that's not an option in your case I guess).

BitDefender didn't like the way cargo builds tools and then runs them (e.g., build_script_build-etc.exe), and I'd guess WS is the same.

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