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Windows Defender flagged zluda.exe as a Trojan

Open R-N opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Windows Defender flagged zluda.exe (Version 3) as a Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml

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3 flags on VirusTotal

It should be a false positive, right?

R-N avatar Feb 15 '24 13:02 R-N

Yes, I've ran a scan on my machine and it came back clean. Detections with !ml suffix come from Defender machine learning mode. It looks to me like a case of "6 fingers" machine learning virus detection, but if you are still worried then build from sources

vosen avatar Feb 15 '24 13:02 vosen

Yes, it's a known problem, it's written in the readme

Antivirus flags ZLUDA as malware.

ZLUDA launcher (zluda.exe) uses some of the techniques used by malware, but for good. zluda.exe hijacks the process and redirects all uses of the original NVIDIA's CUDA libraries to use ZLUDA's CUDA instead.

Don't use zluda.exe with games that use anti-cheat. ZLUDA does not support CUDA gaming workloads (PhysX or DLSS) and anti-cheat might mistake zluda.exe for a malware or a cheat.

DGdev91 avatar Feb 15 '24 23:02 DGdev91

I see. Thank you

R-N avatar Feb 16 '24 01:02 R-N