How to properly set permissions for my application in visual studio

Allischar 1

I create a program that mostly reads during execution. I would like the app to be able to create a .logfile or the user a .saveyourprogressfile preferably in documents in a folder with my app's name or anywhere the user chooses during the installation process. When i use filesystem header it creates the folder with no problem anywhere i want as far as i have seen. When i use ofstream the antivirus pops and blocks the .txt or whatever else file i try to create. What is the proper way to set the permissions so that i would not have a problem with an antivirus. I tried instead of "as invoker","as highest available" and all the rest of them with no success in visual studio. The permissions for my executable are as follows
Authenticated users: all(except full control),
System: all,
Administrators: all,
users: read and execute+read.

Minxin Yu 11,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-07-04T01:16:21.897+00:00

Could you provide information about your antivirus software? Was the error prompted by Windows Defender? Can the text be created when the antivirus software is turned off?
Allischar 1 Reputation point

2022-07-07T02:07:53.043+00:00

If the antivirus is turned off everything works fine. The antivirus is avast. It detects the file i try to create as malware. I am reading and writing to files with fstream and filesystem header, i don't do it the windows way(createfile), directly. But the antivirus doesn't go bananas when other installed programs create files, so this has to be something that i am doing or not doing.
Minxin Yu 11,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-07-07T02:57:12.64+00:00

Did it work when starting Visual Studio or exe with administrator? For your reference: My programs are blocked by Avast Antivirus
Allischar 1 Reputation point

2022-07-07T15:09:47.353+00:00
#include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <filesystem> int main() { std::ofstream logg; logg.open("log.txt", std::ios::trunc); logg.write("This is a log file, don't block it please", 41); logg.close(); return 0; }

This is an example.
When i run visual studio, normally.(Not as an admin). The release version of my executable has the following permissions.
System: all,
Local account(this local account here is the name of the account i am signed in with):all
Administrators: all
All three of them don't have special permissions.

If i run it outside the visual studio folder in my documents for example i get this message:
myprogram.exe is trying to change or delete the file log.txt in your protected desktop folder. Would you like to allow?
This happens when i run the exe as an admin and normally.

When i run visual studio, as an admin. The release version of my executable has the following permissions(they are the same).
System: all,
Local account(this local account here is the name of the account i am signed in with):all
Administrators: all
All three of them don't have special permissions.

If i run it outside the visual studio folder in my documents for example i get the same message:
myprogram.exe is trying to change or delete the file log.txt in your protected desktop folder. Would you like to allow?
This happens when i run the exe as an admin and normally.

I don't know why log.txt appears as a link, was not intended that way.
RLWA32 43,381 Reputation points

2022-07-07T15:46:30.017+00:00

Have you enabled the Windows controlled-folders?
Allischar 1 Reputation point

2022-07-07T16:14:43.093+00:00

Controlled folder access under the ransonware protection tab in virus & threat protection is turned off. Can you elaborate a little.
Minxin Yu 11,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-07-19T01:41:23.493+00:00

For your reference: when i compile my c++ code avast thinks its a virus

With most anti-virus systems it's a good idea to add the folder you compile your code in to an exclusion list.

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