detected as trojan by windows defender. - Githubissues

Maxstupo / ydl-ui

A UI for the command-line video downloader "youtube-dl"

MIT License

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detected as trojan by windows defender. #75

Closed milindgoel15 closed 3 years ago

milindgoel15 commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Its not related to UI/UX or crashes or anything like that but when i downloaded and extracted, it was detected as trojan by defender. Ik its open source and i can look up all its code but idk any part how to look cuz i am not a coder and have 0 coding skills(as i not from this field of work). but can u help me with this issue?

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior (if applicable, attach preset file): Download, extract and start downloading yay but :(

Screenshots 2020-11-15

Information (please complete the following information)

YDL-UI Version: v2.6.12-_portable from github
OS: windows 10 2004 update
Architecture: x64

Additional context none

Maxstupo commented 3 years ago

It looks like a false positive with Windows Defender (seems like others have had similar issues, see nb)

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/858809656eed91273b44e371cf97d5f53ffb13b7aeeb85125b373c996ce61d57/detection

It's up to you but you can always ignore the detection.

milindgoel15 commented 3 years ago

👍👍

TechTrooper commented 3 years ago

Seems like a few more engines detected it too.