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Microsoft Defender "detects" a "virus" on any .exe or .dll of unknown provenance. The solution is code signing. Pay whatever you need to pay for a certificate

• rcxdude 3y ago
  That's the "smartscreen" function, and it also depends on where the file is marked as having come from (and yes, it largely seems to be a racket to get you to buy cide signing). If defender actively thinks there is a virus through a signature match or heuristics then the behaviour is different, and more difficult to bypas (and yes, this can also have false positives, irritatingly).