gel project init in windows pwsh completely made my antivirus (BitDefender) freak out and quarantine files

[Lars-O-Knudsen]

• Gel Version:
• PS C:\Users\Fanless AMD\Documents\Develop\projects\sql\gel> gel query 'select sys::get_version_as_str()' Connecting to Gel instance 'gel' at localhost:10700... gel error: I/O error. Check your connection to the database: ClientConnectionFailedError: Der kunne ikke oprettes forbindelse, fordi destinationscomputeren aktivt nægtede det. (os error 10061)
• Gel CLI Version: Gel CLI 7.4.0+a0caba5
• OS Version: Win 11 / PowerShell 7.5.1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. I tried to run gel project init
2. But after a long time of installing the pwsh shell simply closed, and the anti virus came up and said it had prevented a malicious attack and had quarantined a lot of files. See screen shots

3. Things dont work as you can see from the version query above. The local instance is inactive.

gel instance list ┌───────┬──────┬─────────────────┬─────────────┬──────────┐ │ Kind │ Name │ Location │ Version │ Status │ ├───────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤ │ local │ gel │ localhost:10700 │ 6.7+0d93b1f │ inactive │ └───────┴──────┴─────────────────┴─────────────┴──────────┘

4. ==> Please advise how I can clean up this mess and either make installation work or remove it completely from pwsh as well as wsl

[Lars-O-Knudsen]

You can have this as well

[scotttrinh]

Yeah, Windows malware detection has been a whack-a-mole for us, we'll check out this particular issue. In the meantime, running in WSL or using Docker should work if that's something that you can do.

[mmastrac]

Filed case ID 00968934 with BitDefender as a false positive.

If you can, please submit these quarantined files as a false-positive here:

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/business/submit

[mmastrac]

I would recommend that you whitelist the AppData\Roaming\edgedb, AppData\Local\EdgeDBand Documents\Develop to prevent BitDefender from continuing to improperly flag these development files.