Avast! complains

[ouroborus]

Avast! compains about DuckDNS.exe, claiming infection by "IDP.Generic"

[ouroborus]

Looks like it may have something to do with launching it straight from the zip archive.

[XWolfOverride]

Hello, I have several issues with antivirus in this project. I think it is for a combination of techniques used in the app.
IDP.Generic is not a specific virus or trojan as the name says, is a generic detection of trojans and IDP is for ID Protection.

This software use a technique of resolving the local DNS for automatic IPv6 and IPv4 external address resolution (DDns.cs>UpdateDomain). This is some sort of identity resolution and can be used for malicious purposes.
Other suspicious technique is the one of creating startup link to auto start application (FMain.cs>installStartupShortcutToolStripMenuItem_Click). A lot of trojans used some startup installations to maintain software alive through shutdowns.

Sincerely I'm not sure how to avoid this kind of warnings on security without removing functionalty.

If anyone reading this message have a hint about that it will be stronlgy appreciated.
Thanks.

[ouroborus]

In a DuckDNS client I had written years ago, my solution was to use third-party services. There's a number of them that offer URLs that just respond with your IP address as they see it. For example, ipify. (Though I'd use it without the JSON specifier so that it just gives the raw IP. No reason to add a JSON layer.)