Right, and I understand false positives that are triggered by unsigned installers, but those alerts (and how you interpret them) are not the same as a windows defender matched viral / malware signature. This is a specific assertion about a specific detection. My default windows defender would see this in the same way their default windows defender would. Right?Funk Dracula wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:43 pmThe Bitwig installers do get false flagged on some systems. It has something to do with .msi files and not having some sort of signature or update or something to do with some viruses using .msi as a means of getting on your system. It's a generic flag from machine learning or something like that, so it's not accurate. I don't know and can't remember, the details aren't actually important. Somebody explained it once on Reddit tho and others chimed in to verify that was probably the scenario.Milkman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:05 pmOver time, I have to wonder about certain comments.
I also have defender on my win10 box that I do music production from, and I've never seen a false positive for Bitwig, Cubase, NI products, etc etc, but there is always someone who comes to the threads about various products to claim specific malware is attached to the installer of the <insert newly updated product here>. Ive seen this exact comment in probably 10 brand forums, usually with a nearly identical trojan being claimed.
I dont know what sort of crap you are up to, lmao, but this aint it.
I don't think these people are trying to spread anti-Bitwig/Cubase/etc propaganda. I think they just went to install it, Windows Defender said "DANGER," and they are confused and alarmed about that haha. I'm not a Windows expert in the slightest, so I know when Defender warns me about something, I get a little nervous like "What the heck did I do?? Oh shit they got me!" because I just don't know any better haha.
Im a 30+ year net/sysadmin. Security is part of my job. I wonder why my identically populated (I assume my defender and their defender are updated and configured identically) windows defender would not give me one single false positive? Ive seen people make nearly identical comments under at least 4-5 software releases in the last 6ish months alone, and every time others are unable to verify these false positives.
There are people who indeed spread "you are being hacked all the time, everywhere" propaganda, for one reason or another. Some are super paranoid & convinced they are being hacked all the time. Some are actually backdoored and infected, and various files are indeed infected, so they think the vendor's files are infected. Some are trying to sell security software. It doesnt matter to me WHY people do this.
To me, this is indicative of something lol.