Trojan?

[awgiedawgie]

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I tried downloading version 2018.12.17, but I cannot access the file once downloaded. Windows Defender immediately quarantines it for a Trojan. I have no trouble using the previous version. Any suggestions?

[rautamiekka]

Although Defender basically can't be trusted (99% of the time it's worthless, even detrimental since it slows down quite a bit), it does detect some serious shit, and you just caught yourself a serious Trojan that's infected your machine, specifically some EXE files, and it so happens Defender knows it infected youtube-dl.exe after you downloaded it.

EDIT: Try running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on your machine from the Safe Mode (if it doesn't complain about it; haven't used that software in a long time), that should do it.

[dstftw]

https://www.virustotal.com/file/9033458baa9a166ff30e368df66b2d6e79062b337e6f02a55590c0c961b5aa5e/analysis/

[awgiedawgie]

Thank you. It turned out to be a false positive. I should have tried Malwarebytes before starting this issue. It's usually my go-to for protection, but I hadn't gotten around to putting it on this new machine, since Windows Defender has actually proven to be more reliable than a couple other anti-virus programs that shall remain nameless. I downloaded the file again, and Malwarebytes says it's fine. And I checked the quarantined files, and it says they're fine as well. Sorry for wasting your time.