Microsoft Defender picking installer up as Trojan!

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Microsoft Defender picking installer up as Trojan!

#1 Post by DwightHat » 2024-02-07 20:32

Hey all, downloaded a install today and Defender threw up a security alert that a trojan has been detected. Image
Never had this happen before. Do you think the installer has been compromised?

I cant get the image to work for some reason....Image

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Re: Microsoft Defender picking installer up as Trojan!

#2 Post by botg » 2024-02-07 22:16

You need to report this false-positive to your AV vendor. Note the suffix in the alleged threat name: "!ml", it denotes machine learning. Not a single human person has ever verified that there is an actual threat, it's pure coincidence and happenstance based on some undisclosed machine-inferred commonality.

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