McAfee sees FZF as a virus

[thousandtyone]

• [X ] I have fzf 0.30.0 or above
• [X] I have read through https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim/blob/master/README.md
• [X] I have read through https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/README-VIM.md
• [X] I have read through the manual page of fzf (man fzf)
• [X] I have searched through the existing issues

I recently installed FZF on neovim on windows 11 in my work machine and the company McAfee configuration instantly started complaining about FZF and showing it as a virus. I know this is a McAfee issue but I is that something that the FZF devs can see to check why this is being caught as virus by McAfee?

Exact error is:

Adaptive Threat Protection repaired C:\Users\username.vim\plugged\fzf\bin\fzf.exe TargetType, because its reputation (Known Malicious) is below the configured Clean threshold.

Other open source projects seem to be resolving it by emailing McAfee and getting their reputations bumped: https://github.com/Clever/csvlint/issues/33

[Diablo-D3]

This would be the wrong project to report this in, this is just the Vim plugin.

However, McAfee itself is effectively a virus/malware, and you should be using Windows Defender instead (which comes with Windows, is free, and meets the legal requirements set forth by PCI DSS, SSAE 18, etc).

Most likely it flags it as a virus because it thinks any binary compiled as a Win32 command line program and/or any binary that is unsigned is automatically a virus, even though that is a ridiculous conclusion that has no basis in computer security.