Windows 10 blocks downloading installer, because it detectes trojan in setup.exe

[Syrup_Murayama]

Bug report

Today, I tried to install inkdrop on my new windows PC.
( I usually use it on my macos. )
I encounterd the error below.

The downloaded setup.exe includes “spursint.F!cl” and windows security judges it trojan.

So, I can’t finish to download your installer…

Does anybody have sush a problem?

Info

• Platform: (Windows 10 Home)
• Platform version: (1809)
• App Version: (3.25.3)

Reproduce

1. login to inkdrop on website.
2. On a download page, selecet windows os, installer version.
3. When it has downloaded, windows security isolate the setup.exe, so I cannot touch the file.

[craftzdog (Takuya Matsuyama)]

Hi Syrup,

Sorry for the trouble.
This is a known issue introduced recently.
Please refer to this topic since this report is duplicate:

Download Failed Setup.exe contained a virus and was deleted

Hi Neil, Thank you for reporting it. I scanned it on VirusTotal and it seems like false positive: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1f8885c36730bffd4013b557030e47d5d480fc0fc7004245ce4872b1266a5a08/analysis/1547425424/ Windows Defender also thinks older versions are a virus threat since its recent virus detection update. Our Setup.exe is generated with Squirrel and apps built with it sometimes get quarantined as a virus threat which is false positive, like Atom Editor. I understand it’s fr…

Thanks again.

[craftzdog (Takuya Matsuyama)]

I reported it to Microsoft and it has been accepted.
Please follow the steps below to clear cached detection and obtain the latest malware definitions.

1. Open command prompt as administrator and change directory to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender
2. Run MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures