Bore.exe is getting flagged as a Trojan by Windows Defender

[varunchopra]

Defender has started flagging Bore now:

Link to the doc: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?name=Trojan%3AWin32%2FMalgent!MTB&threatid=2147836816

[ekzhang]

Hmm I'm not sure what to do about this. I don't use Windows myself. But if anyone has suggestions, happy to coordinate and figure out how to get this software unblocked.

Very strange that it's marked as a trojan, that's like marking openssh as a trojan

[varunchopra]

The VirusTotal scan looks pretty bad.

I haven't used it on Windows in a while either, so I'm not sure when this started. A couple people who read my post reported this to me, so I tried to repro it.

My guess is some people used Bore maliciously and now vendors are flagging it. Not sure what to do about it either. I found this for Microsoft, but the problem is way bigger than just Microsoft based on that VirusTotal scan.

Here's the scan of the darwin build. The problem with Windows is that browsers won't let you download the zip and complain that it's infected. Anyone who hasn't used Bore will get turned off by it. :/