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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it by dom96 on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:07AM (#30586368)
Hey, we (Nim programming language[1]) get constant false positives on Windows Defender. This has started relatively recently and we think is due to a recent increase in the number of whitehats using Nim but it really affects our community negatively. It seems that Windows Defender marks anything that looks like Nim[2] as being a virus which is very unreliable and causes many of our users to get hit by virus warnings as soon as they attempt to install Nim. We've attempted to submit the files concerned as false positives to no avail[3].

Can you or anyone else help resolve this?

1 - https://nim-lang.org

2 - https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7885

3 - https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8196#53855

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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it by Tozen on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:47PM (#30596547)
This false-positive problem is a major headache for a lot of open-source programming languages and programs, whose source code is also sitting right there on GitHub to be inspected and compared with.

Think that Microsoft could do better with its false-positive review process, particularly doing something more for open-source developers and projects.

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