JkGfxMod v1.0.0 seems to have virus within

[Facedancer1984]

When I'm trying to download https://github.com/jdmclark/jkgfxmod/releases/download/v1.0.0/JkGfxMod.zip my Windows Defender says there's a Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.D5!ml inside it, and blocks the dowload. When trying to download earlier versions - it goes well. But "Jedi Knight Neural Upscale Special Effect Annex 1.0" requires JkGfxMod version 1.0.0 or newer. What do you suggest?

[jdmclark]

Hi @Facedancer1984

I recommend submitting this as a false positive to your antivirus vendor.

See also #51

Modern antivirus programs use signature-based detection engines that are increasingly prone to false positives as the population of malware grows over time. This is a major annoyance for all open source software developers. The odds of any program being detected as a virus are effectively random. Software that's extremely popular or made by large companies gets manually whitelisted by antivirus companies, but for everybody else it's a free for all.

JkGfxMod is built on GitHub's (Microsoft's) build servers using only the code in this repository. You can audit this yourself here: https://github.com/jdmclark/jkgfxmod/actions/runs/63797777

If you're still concerned, you can also build the code yourself using the community edition of Visual Studio 2019.

Unfortunately there's not much more information or help I can offer on this, and there's nothing I can do to get JkGfxMod whitelisted. Closing as invalid since this is a Windows Defender design flaw, not a JkGfxMod issue.