Microsoft Defender detecting virus in latest preview build

[Amoeba00]

Just wanted to let you know that Microsoft Defender on Windows 11 is reporting your latest preview version as a "Program:AndroidOS/ZkarletFlash" virus when trying to download the .7z file and automatically blocks it.

[Bocchi-Chan2023]

same

[Bocchi-Chan2023]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?name=Program%3aAndroidOS%2fZkarletFlash&threatid=302127

[dev-thinks]

yes MSFT defender blocks it.

[Amoeba00]

So is there any resolution to this - or just wait until it doesn't ?

[h0munculus]

You have to make an exclusion in Windows Defender for the affected file and folder. Then Defender will ignore it.

[Amoeba00]

I was just curious if you were going to add this to the known issues so folks will know to turn off Windows Defender before downloading it - much less creating a whiltelist for it to run.

If it helps, no issues downloading test build 729 and the only difference between that and v801 - appears to be the mt64agnt.exe and vistuner.exe files.

[h0munculus]

A good idea.

Speaking of Wiki, it would be lovely if it had way more details about the inner workings, like settings and such. More documentation all and all. I don't want to go off-topic; A good wiki/documentation doesn't leave anything out.