4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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This didn't happen when I ran the 4.2 install app a day or two ago, but does on rerun today, so it's something being picked up by the most recent virus definitions.

I've reinstalled Alpha 1.
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Re: 4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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Good

Just wait 2 weeks
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Re: 4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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Back to normal with 4.2A2
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Re: 4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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FYI, this morning Microsoft Defender quarantined RC3 release of sabnzbd.exe, and 10 other vendors on Virus Total are flagging it as trojan/malware.
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Re: 4.2 Alpha 2 Windows Defender and others on VirusTotal flag as containing a trojan

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As usual, these 'security vendors' excel at producing false positives with 15/66 at virustotal claiming the latest rc is a trojan. Some will go as far as deleting the file even though it was explicitly whitelisted, see https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/discussions/2757 (after taking a week to flag it in the first place, that is).
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