Windows Security+Microsoft Defender reports all the installers as PUA

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Windows Security+Microsoft Defender reports all the installers as PUA

#1 Post by Rahsna » 2024-02-13 07:48

Yesterday I updated Filezilla through the in-app updater. It went smooth. Hours later Microsoft Defender popped up with a PUA-warning.
Now, I know what PUA means (Potential Unwanted Program) and since the threat name was named "bundleInstaller", I decided to act and remove the 'threat'.
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Today, wiser from yesterday, I downloaded the installer from https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 - where no "sponsored" version was mentioned, but Windows Security (through Microsoft Defender) detected the same issue at once.

Going to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/th ... tid=311942
Doesn't give me any information, and it does not have the "!ml"-tag, so it is not machine learning either.

How can I verify it is a false positive?

Thank you in advance
~ Rahsna

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Re: Windows Security+Microsoft Defender reports all the installers as PUA

#2 Post by botg » 2024-02-13 08:29

You need to report this false-positive to your AV vendor.

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Re: Windows Security+Microsoft Defender reports all the installers as PUA

#3 Post by Rahsna » 2024-02-13 10:12

I did as requested, and found a URL to report it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission

I will return when/if I have their answer, thank you :)

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Re: Windows Security+Microsoft Defender reports all the installers as PUA

#4 Post by Rahsna » 2024-02-18 13:30

After submitting the files for security review, the files have been re-evaluated and now FileZilla_3.66.5_win64-setup no longer triggers Windows Security / Microsoft Defender as a PUA 👍🏼

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