Slade windows defender threat ??

[Mewdoom]

Hello, I just try to install Slade and I have windows defender that is detected threat and delete the exe. Have you experience the same problem ?

[Gez]

https://github.com/sirjuddington/SLADE/issues/587
False positive.

[Mewdoom]

Are you sure its safe ? Because Windows defender say its a virus: Trojan: Varpes.M!cl

[Gez]

I'm just going to quote the person making the report I linked to:

ozbonus said:

Forcing download and then requesting a scan with Windows Defender does not detect anything, nor does a meta-scan through virustotal.com.

Also looking into more details on the supposed trojan, I find more reports of various other false positives, for example these three:
http://forum.fritzing.org/t/windows-64-bit-download-flagged-by-windows-defender-as-containing-a-virus/1826
https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53242
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=17890

I'm 99.99999999999999999% certain Windows Defender is just overreacting.