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builtbybel / Winpilot

The manic cousin of Microsoft Copilot
https://builtbybel.com/blog/bloatynosy-is-now-winpilot
MIT License
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MS Defender is flagging this as a PUA:Win32/Puamson #233

Open gamer191 opened 2 months ago

gamer191 commented 2 months ago

I'm sure that it's a false positive, but I wanted to flag it anyway:

Zip archive: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2a69e746f280fe6aa1061c4219d35ff2ddcf4af2eacda4584da1a3cafee05fa8 Individual EXE: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f0842bd0a5d8ea545edd8f8ebaf193e478da372aa3674db13f818324f401853e

EDIT: I've reported the executable as a false-positive to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission/

gamer191 commented 2 months ago

The files are classified as potentially unwanted applications (PUA). At this time the detection will remain in place. More detailed information about the approach and criteria categories currently used by the Microsoft researchers are available here: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/security/threat-protection/intelligence/criteria Thank you for contacting Microsoft.

If I gave them the benefit of the doubt then perhaps this is an automated response, or has some legitimate reason that I haven't thought of. I'm personally suspecting that they just don't like competition, and don't like their spyware being blocked

Belim commented 2 months ago

I don't know what their problem is it's all starting to really annoy me. Maybe because I misused their Clippy