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rgriebl / brickstore

An offline BrickLink inventory management tool.
https://www.brickstore.dev/
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Windows Defender flags BrickStore.exe as Trojan #801

Closed Nouvilas closed 6 months ago

Nouvilas commented 6 months ago

Describe the bug After installing the latest update and trying to launch BrickStore, Windows Defender (Windows 10 Home) gave a pop-up saying it detected a Trojan:Win32/Convagent!pz virus in: file: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\BrickStore.lnk file: \BrickStore\BrickStore.exe regkey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\UNINSTALL\BrickStore_is1 startup: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\BrickStore.lnk uninstall: HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\UNINSTALL\BrickStore_is1

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Update BrickStore to latest version
  2. Launch Brickstore through start menu link

Expected behavior BrickStore should not contain a trojan virus and Windows Defender should not flag it as such if it doesn't

System information Windows 10 Home

rgriebl commented 6 months ago

The download from Github here https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases/tag/v2023.11.2 is clean: it's built on Microsoft servers, using Microsoft tools. It works for me in Window 10 Pro without Defender complaining. If you got it from here, then maybe your machine/network has problems? Check your BrickStore installer download on https://virustotal.com

That being said: I can't do anything about it, if Microsoft (or any other AV vendor) incorrectly flags BrickStore as malicious. There's no way to appeal such a decision, unless you are a big corporation. The only way to use BrickStore in this case, is to make sure virustotal says it's clean and then add an exception to your AV program.