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AAndyProgram / SCrawler

🏳️‍🌈 Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, OnlyFans, YouTube, Pinterest, PornHub, XHamster, XVIDEOS, ThisVid etc.
https://discord.gg/uFNUXvFFmg
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Windows Defender sees Scrawler.exe as a trojan #200

Closed LordEng1ish closed 2 months ago

LordEng1ish commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug Windows Defender sees Scrawler.exe as a trojan. Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Unzip the scrawler zip files
  2. Windows defender tells you it found a trojan, Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. Windows defender finds no trojans.

Screenshots trojan

Release information: SCrawler v2024.6.10.0 (x64) OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (x64) ffmpeg version: ffmpeg version 5.1.2-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers yt-dlp version: 2024.05.27 gallery-dl version: 1.27.0 cURL version: curl 7.86.0 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/7.86.0 OpenSSL/3.0.7 (Schannel) zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.2 WinIDN libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.50.0 ngtcp2/0.10.0 nghttp3/0.7.1 libgsasl/2.2.0

Additional context Reddit comments tell me ".ml" means machine learning and is often a false positive. I've used past versions of scrawler without any problem. I trust scrawler. Malwarebytes did not detect scrawler as anything.

I believe unrelated, malwarebytes found some other junk in my chrome data folders, which I believe would be my fault from other sources. malware

AAndyProgram commented 2 months ago

SCrawler doesn't contain any viruses at all. All code is posted here (on GitHub). You can review it. I have nothing to hide. SCrawler just downloads pictures and videos. That's all.

I trust scrawler. Malwarebytes did not detect scrawler as anything.

If you trust SCrawler, you should just add it to the antivirus exceptions, as I did. Sometimes antiviruses identify SCawler as a virus. This is usually related to the number of files being edited (users' settings files) and the number of files being downloaded. In this case, the antivirus can also remove these files, which will damage users' settings.