Microsoft Defender detected Trojans - rly?!

[Patiivs]

Downloaded the simulator and got the information from Windows, it detected a trojan

[Tharre]

This is a false positive.

We get these on occasion, but not much we can do about it on our side.

[kayla-glick]

Here's an issue from our SoD repo where this was brought up and I tried to look up what causes the sim to be flagged wowsims/sod#715.

It basically seems to be our inclusion of a Discord link and Google metrics API that are just normal parts of the site

[dexxiez]

Just an idea, might be stupid but I don't know. Would signing the executable with something like Cosign give the exe more reputation and not flag a false positive when some stupid defender definitions get released?

[Tharre]

Just an idea, might be stupid but I don't know. Would signing the executable with something like Cosign give the exe more reputation and not flag a false positive when some stupid defender definitions get released?

No that won't work. We could use the Microsoft signing thing in theory, but last I checked that was pretty expensive.

[kayla-glick]

@Tharre what in the world I just looked into pricing. That's ridiculous. Upwards of $100-200+ per year just to sign the executable

[Tharre]

@kayla-glick yeah it's wild. And they don't even have a free open source program or something to my knowledge