remove shell code in Windows installer to reduce antivirus false positives

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/SMAPI.Installer/InteractiveInstaller.cs b/src/SMAPI.Installer/InteractiveInstaller.cs
index d5866c74..95aed4ca 100644
--- a/src/SMAPI.Installer/InteractiveInstaller.cs
+++ b/src/SMAPI.Installer/InteractiveInstaller.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
@@ -13,6 +12,9 @@ using StardewModdingAPI.Internal.ConsoleWriting;
 using StardewModdingAPI.Toolkit;
 using StardewModdingAPI.Toolkit.Framework.ModScanning;
 using StardewModdingAPI.Toolkit.Utilities;
+#if !SMAPI_FOR_WINDOWS
+using System.Diagnostics;
+#endif
 
 namespace StardewModdingApi.Installer
 {
@@ -461,6 +463,8 @@ namespace StardewModdingApi.Installer
 
                         // mark file executable
                         // (MSBuild doesn't keep permission flags for files zipped in a build task.)
+                        // (Note: exclude from Windows build because antivirus apps can flag the process start code as suspicious.)
+#if !SMAPI_FOR_WINDOWS
                         new Process
                         {
                             StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
@@ -470,6 +474,7 @@ namespace StardewModdingApi.Installer
                                 CreateNoWindow = true
                             }
                         }.Start();
+#endif
                     }
 
                     // create mods directory (if needed)