Antivirus said the tiles+console installer was infected with a trojan when I tried

[Veritasius]

PLATFORM and OS or BROWSER:
Windows 11

DCSS VERSION AND GAME INFORMATION:
0.30.1, issue discovered during game download from main "crawl develz" DCSS website, attempting to download latest version

DESCRIPTION:
My antivirus would not let me download any windows version and gave me this alert for the tiles+console download: Bitdefender alert: C:\Users\james\Downloads\cb00f176-59ad-493a-87d4-19174fb49413.tmp is infected with Gen:Trojan.Heur.FU.yIZ@aGLZuBhi.

Issue deters potential players, didn't find anything on the forums about this or anywhere else.

[Zireael07]

Heur is likely short for Heuristics. i.e. likely a false alert, report it as such to Bitdefender

[rawlins]

This is almost certainly a false positive, virus scanners don't like the installer package we use; see e.g. #3132, https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=9109, etc

There's not much we can do short of dropping the installer package, but someone could report this as a false positive to BitDefender, which has worked in the past.

[Zireael07]

If this is an installer issue, why not switch to an installer that doesn't cause issues?

[Veritasius]

I'm reporting the false positive. Thank you so much. Whenever I have the time I might make a forum post about it to reassure others who run into the issue. I appreciate your attention and am impressed by your quick response. About it being an installer issue: I tried to download the windows installer and the windows zips at "https://crawl.develz.org/download.htm" and the moment I clicked on the links for those downloads is when my antivirus blocked them and gave me the alerts.

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[PleasingFungus]

Yep, nothing we can do here. Sorry for the trouble!