Subj : Re: WinPoint Version 409.0 (A Bugfix Release) is available
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Sat Aug 20 2022 13:32:31

//Hello Carlos,//

on *20.08.22* at *6:16:27* You wrote in Area *WINPOINT*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"WinPoint Version 409.0 (A Bugfix Release) is available"*.

 CN> 18 Aug 2022 19:23, you wrote to All:

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 TS>> º Û   Û ÛÛÛÛ      Version 409.0       º
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 TS>> º  Û Û  Û         Released 2022-08-18 º
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 CN> Windows Defender (Win10 Home) detects "Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml" on
 CN> setup.exe.

 CN> A false positive, I guess...

Jep. Found no reason to think different. Using the latest build, it magically goes away. Just building a new release so people feel better about installing ;)

Unfortunately, these false positives create a lot of mistrust against developers and products. This has become a major issue over the years and causes a lot of extra work for the developers. Back in my old job, every other release had false positives on some scanner before we made a part of the release process to check on virustotal before and submit the false positives to the vendors or suppress them ourselves by minor changes on whetever. For a hobby project, this is really annoying.

Even more, I have serious doubts about the whole "security" industry and their products, because I think they are largely useless against actual threads.  

Regards,
Tim

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 * Origin: Original WinPoint Origin! (2:240/1120.29)

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