I think you misunderstand how the entire antivirus thing works. Microsoft, Malwarebytes, Avira - all of them have false positive. Hell. Malwarebytes detected some of my photos the other day as virus (which BTW isn't even possible). They do it as a matter of course.
The dirty secret is some company's - the big ones - are white listed. They can do whatever they like and release whatever they like. That is dangerous. Small companies are not - we use something called code signing which validates our product - but sometimes that is plain ignored, missed and we get "false positive" detections
The antivirus companies further more depend on from known lists - most of which are t the same. Meaning they all the detect the same known thing. Hence., they realty detect something that isn't known -- until someone discovers it and it comes on the list.
To try and get around this they use heuristics that try and uses that something may be in the realm of a viral infection -- that leads to more false positives. Don't believe me, read it from one of the best utility programmers ever.
https://www.nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html This is why you see "generic" or "Trojan.gen" a lot. meaning they have no idea what this is and it could be something generic -- or nothing.
There is no way for us to know when and if someone will detect our software as a false positive -- and it happens a lot. We have to wait for them to make a mistake and report it to them. Then wait for them to fix it. Which sucks for us.
Hell I wrote a company called cylance like 3 months ago and they still haven't fixed it. I suppose that is why no one uses cylance. Clearly, they don't keep pace.
In this case Microsoft plain screwed up something and detect a crapload of software with the same thing.
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/172357-trojanwin32critetbs/We reported it, they fixed it - I don't expect and apology from them. But that is how the system unfortunately works. It sucks, but that is what it is.
We do our job correctly and produce quality clean software. If you don't want to white list it, that's your call. Just wait for the next update and we will be cleared. But you, as consumers have to take a stand to help fight the false positive problem. Authors have been fighting it to no avail.
I would have thought that that shouldn't be our job, we just purchased the license. I had the impression that the program is supposed was developed with Microsoft's blessing. It's not right for every user to have to struggle with Microsoft to make sense of it. I thought the idea was you do the work and we pay for the license. So now we're supposed to multiply efforts between us all when we have no idea what is going on.
I don't want to whitelist it because maybe how do I know the program doesn't actually have a Trojan in it? As it is I'm getting paranoid with all this cyber hacking. E.g., from what I read I'm pretty sure Kaspersky virus checker seems to have been hacking user's computers on behalf of Putin (the US govt is barring its use)
I just got the trojan message from Microsoft Defender today, I bet there will be lots more than already reported it. Isn't it Tweaking.com's job to make sure that we are safe?
Rani
