Fix: reduce AV false positives in runtime stubs#569
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Windows Defender flags obfuscated output as malware due to heuristic pattern matching against the combined runtime stub patterns. Changes: - Remove GCHandle.Alloc(Pinned) from Compressor runtime stubs — pinning is unnecessary since the byte[] is locally referenced and won't be GC'd - Remove System.Runtime.InteropServices dependency from runtime stubs - Add instruction count limit (150) to HardeningPhase inlining to prevent aggregating all suspicious patterns into a single .cctor method body All protection features remain fully functional. The GCHandle removal changes the memory management approach without affecting the decryption logic. The hardening limit keeps large protection initializers as separate method calls instead of inlining them, which spreads heuristic patterns across multiple methods.
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Windows Defender flags obfuscated output as malware due to heuristic pattern matching against the combined runtime stub patterns.
Changes:
All protection features remain fully functional. The GCHandle removal changes the memory management approach without affecting the decryption logic. The hardening limit keeps large protection initializers as separate method calls instead of inlining them, which spreads heuristic patterns across multiple methods.