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Troubleshooting: Update malware detection section
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@ -224,12 +224,11 @@ We have had reports that Anti-Virus software such as:
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- AVG Anti-Virus
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- BitDefender
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- MalwareBytes
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- (Microsoft) Windows Defender
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can sometimes report that either one of our installers (e.g.
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EDMarketConnector_win_5.0.0.msi) or an executable therein is malicious in
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some manner. This has invariably always been a false positive. Microsoft's
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Windows Defender on Windows 10 never has any issue with any of our application
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files.
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some manner. This has invariably always been a false positive.
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The .msi files we distribute are built either on a trusted developer's
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machine, or on GitHub itself (but then downloaded to a developer's machine
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@ -240,6 +239,17 @@ See discussion in [EDMC 5.0.0. Flagged at Malware by AVG Anti Virus #1058](https
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for more details about the 'cause' of this, including links to py2exe
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issues about it.
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Our working assumption is that some malware authors also use py2exe, or
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something similar, to build python scripts into windows executables.
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Those then get correctly flagged as malware by various vendors, but
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there's then collateral damage from them identifying actually innocent
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parts of those malware executables as an issue. That then subsequently
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causes them to misidentify innocent programs built that way as malware.
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Every time we've reported the specific file(s) to an AV vendor and
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they've looked at them more closely they've then come back to us and
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admitted it was a false positive.
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It might be worth trying a manual download and install, if what you're
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Anti-Virus is objecting to is the EDMarketConnector.exe -> WinSparkle.dll
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-> Download -> Run Installer chain:
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