1.3.6 virus detected?

[ghost]

What on Earth?
1.3.5 is somewhat fine. But 1.3.6 is rigged with virus?

Windows Defender detected one.
Virus Total detected tons of it.

[DavidKinder]

False positive generated by stupid virus checkers. Tested by rebuilding Windows Git from source with my Visual Studio 2019 install: rebuilt git.exe is flagged by Windows Defender, but no other rebuilt executable is.

I have updated my Visual Studio 2019 to the very latest version, and rebuilt Windows Git, and now stupid Windows Defender is happy. I've updated the release with the new executable.

[CailanVR]

The file is now recognized again by Windows Defender, among other engines. This time with a new threat, as seen below.

The VirusTotal page has grown worse as well, which you can find here: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/05e21b836d923172f323d307a2abc3be609a3430c0542545d88a6c2166bfb00d

[DavidKinder]

I don't see this from Windows Defender here, I've got version 1.353.1825.0. These false positives seem to come and go with no rythme or reason.

At some point soon I will get round to buying myself a personal code signing certificate. This won't help directly with these false positives, but at least will give some assurance that the executable has not been modified since I released it.