Update on potential threats


So earlier today, someone had mentioned that the game got flagged by, most likely, windows defender as a virus however, despite multiple scans I did not get flagged for any malicious files. So I decided to make a Mega account and uploaded there and then redownloaded it to which windows actually flagged it for me.

In the Windows Defender tab, it mentioned a Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.A!ml. But after searching that up multiple people have mentioned its HIGHLY LIKELY to be a false positive. Despite this I kept trying to get rid of the false positive without actually whitelisting it.

So far:

  • I scanned w/ Windows Defender did not get a virus or malicious file notification.
  • I did use VirusTotal and it also stated Microsoft flagged the same virus.
  • I used Windows Defender to scan the Unity files and it still shows nothing.
  • I used Windows Safety Scanner to search the files and it said the files were clear.
  • I uploaded it to Mega and tried to download it manually and it came back as virus detected by Windows Defender

I’m honestly starting to think its 100% just a false positive by Microsoft since there’s a bunch of antivirus programs that never found anything. I also updated windows defender and it after a few scans it just went away???

I was even able to download via Mega.nz on a separate computer (The exact same link to the file Microsoft said was a virus) without getting flagged as a virus…

I’m pretty sure its a false positive. Keep in mind that all of the files in the ZIP were built and generated by Unity so it should be much more unlikely there’s a virus at all.

To end this I sent the last ZIP file to Microsoft to see if its a false positive or not. Or to get an answer on why it keeps flagging it.

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