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Sep 19, 2020, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Seren View Post
It's hard to guess what Windows Defender has an issue with precisely, but it's probably the usual: it's a rarely downloaded file from an unknown source, it's new and Defender hasn't seen it before, and it modifies an exe file on your computer to run its own code. To antivirus software, that sounds scary. Perhaps it also detects some specific byte pattern that just happened to occur naturally by chance within the file.
Just out of interest, would that mean that an antivirus eventually stops detecting it because some magic download number has been reached?

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