Firmware update on the WIKI is getting flagged by Windows Defender

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  • Bitdefender also flags the URL and program as : Trojan.GenericKD.40916319

    I have submitted both the program and URL as a false positive for review.

  • Trojan.Generic sounds very ehh generic. My guess is that it triggers some heuristic in the virus scanner.

    To be fair the tool is a bit peculiar.

    - Compiled with a non-microsoft compiler

    - Using various API calls normally only used by device drivers and system components.

    - It contains routines to scan the registery for device names

    - And about 80% of the executable consists of embedded firmware images that the virusscanner can't understand.


    I don't know how suspicious serial communication routines are nowadays, but it might be enough to nudge the tool over the edge. And the virusscanner goes: No not on my watch!

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