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Just tried and am very impressed with APE and redbean. However, I had to turn off Windows Defender to even download (much less run) redbean, due to it detectin
by downwa 4y ago
Just tried and am very impressed with APE and redbean. However, I had to turn off Windows Defender to even download (much less run) redbean, due to it detecting redbean as Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.B!ml
Windows Defender quarantines the file within seconds of download, but even when I did catch the option to Allow, it never seemed to stick.
It would be nice to either find a way to avoid redbean being seen as a virus (I'm guessing it's the self-modifying code that bothers it), or ask Microsoft nicely to add redbean to the False Positives list.
However, I'm guessing it would be easy for someone to misuse redbean too, deploying what looks legit but with some added nefarious code. In that case, you'd need to submit checksums of legitimate releases to Microsoft (and other antivirus vendors) just to make deployment of the base redbean work without complaint. And anyone who adds to the archive for their own use (basically any real use of it) would have to do the same...
Not trying to discourage anyone. This is a great project! Looking for solutions to the false positive antivirus problem.
- jart 4y agoAuthor here. I would happily share information like hashes and build artifacts with Microsoft and other virus scanners if it would fix all these false positives. However I don't know how to do that (other than uploading to VirusTotal which I've always done) and Windows is just 1 out of the 6 platforms we support. I don't charge money for redbean. I don't have a commercial interest in distributing these binaries. I'm just an open source developer trying to help out. It's up to the community members who want to see it unflagged with Windows to help us make that happen, and I'm happy to cooperate in any way I can.