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Yes — completely free for personal and commercial use under the MIT license. No account required, no telemetry, no feature gating, no trial period.

No. Both the Installer and Portable editions are fully self-contained Windows executables. Python, all libraries, and the Tkinter runtime are bundled inside the .exe — nothing else to install.

Installer (.exe): Runs the setup wizard, adds a Start Menu shortcut and an entry in Add/Remove Programs. Recommended for a permanent workstation install.

Portable (ZIP): Extract and run V-Terminal.exe directly — no registry changes, no admin rights required. Ideal for USB drives, shared lab PCs, or quick testing.

This is a known false positive with PyInstaller-packed executables. The bundler compresses Python bytecode and native DLLs into a single exe — a technique that some heuristic scanners flag. V-Terminal has no malicious code. If needed, add an exclusion for the V-Terminal folder in your AV settings.

Everything stays 100% local on your machine. Session profiles are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and stored in a data\ folder next to V-Terminal.exe. Session logs go to data\session_logs\. Nothing is sent to any server.

No — the built-in detection is intended for testing, labs, and home labs only. All five rules run in memory with no persistent storage or correlation engine, so they are not a substitute for a dedicated production SIEM. For production environments, forward your syslogs to a full SIEM (Splunk, Graylog, Wazuh, etc.) and use V-Terminal as the collection and monitoring tool on the endpoint.

Yes. Open Settings → Sessions to save any connection as a named profile. Profiles are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and stored locally — your credentials are never stored in plain text. Saved sessions appear in the sidebar for one-click connect.

Open an issue on GitHub Issues or email support@v-terminal.pro. Please include: Windows version, V-Terminal version (shown in About), and steps to reproduce.