Cataclysm-dda: windows defender (anti-virus) reports latest windows tiles build as containing a trojan

Created on 31 May 2018  路  6Comments  路  Source: CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Game version:
http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Tiles/cataclysmdda-0.C-7433.zip

Operating system:
Windows 10

Tiles or curses:
tiles
http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows/Tiles/cataclysmdda-0.C-7433.zip

Mods active:
n/a

Expected behavior

no trojan warnings

Actual behavior

trojan warning
Trojan:Win32/Azden.B!cl
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fAzden.B!cl&threatid=2147723291

Steps to reproduce the behavior

download build 7433 (link above)
wait a few minutes for Windows Defender scan to pick it up or right-click zip file an initiate manual scan

screenshot of windows defender trojan info warning attached:

wut

Other

Most helpful comment

Heuristic antivirus has false positives sometimes based on random happenstance, and there's nothing we can do about it.

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Does cdda even contain any networking functions?

It looks like (I'm a Linux guy so I could be wrong) that you are running the executable from the zip file, could you try extracting it and running/scanning the .exe in it's unextracted form?

Heuristic antivirus has false positives sometimes based on random happenstance, and there's nothing we can do about it.

@pipehat try scanning 7423 and see if there's still a problem

7426, my prev version, is fine

also odd that there don't appear to be new builds for last several days at:
http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows_x64/Tiles/

there don't appear to be new builds for last several days

The build machine was down due to a hardware fault, see #23865.

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