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Starsector aggravates Win Defender [RC15]
« on: April 23, 2021, 09:31:24 AM »

The current Starsector install RC15 pulls a Windows Defender warning,
presumably from something left behind registering it as coming from another computer.

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Re: Starsector aggravates Win Defender [RC15]
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2021, 10:03:01 AM »

Hi - thank you for the report! I'm... not sure what this means, actually. But false positives from various antiviruses seem to be very common - I don't think there's been a release where *some* antivirus somewhere hasn't flagged it as suspicious.
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Re: Starsector aggravates Win Defender [RC15]
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2021, 02:26:52 PM »

So, Looking into this there is appearantly Metadata within the files that id's with another computer.
Win Defender/antivirus really distrusts that data,
and the solution is very strangely to zip&unzip which then scrubs the metadata.
Or perhaps there is something on your perfered code platfrom which can do something like that as RC12 never had any issue.
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Re: Starsector aggravates Win Defender [RC15]
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2021, 02:52:09 PM »

Hmm - that's really odd, since the build process was identical in each case.
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