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Hello,

Spine has been installed for several months on my PC and the installer is also still on my hard drive.
Yesterday, Windows Defender (Windows 8.1) randomly detected the installer to contain trojan:vigorf.a when i browsed into the directory...
I did a full scan of my PC, and another file, in the installation folder this time, was also positive...
So i uninstalled Spine and downloaded a fresh installer from my download page but it detects the trojan right away...
I am a bit concerned about all this...

Regards

Windows Defender is wrong, of course. Antivirus software makes guesses, since virus authors are constantly making variations. You can upload the installer file to http://virustotal.com and see scan results for 65 different antivirus programs, though you may need to disable Windows Defender to be able to download the file at all. For example:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e8256ffa1d7e2155cb1dedf7972890e45f7894eb091c7d34c5d816ff658e8c9a/detection

We have tried to submit the incorrectly classified files to Microsoft using the official method, however at the last step Microsoft's website is broken (gives a "500 internal error"). Pretty amazing for a 110 billion dollar company. It also goes to show how much they don't care about the accuracy of Windows Defender.

We are working on getting Spine digitally signed which will cause Windows Defender to treat us more favorably, but there's a bunch of hoops that have to be jumped through. We are currently waiting for other companies to do their job, until then the process can't move forward.

I checked my installer with virustotal.com and i get the same results as you (pretty much all green) plus they also say that Microsoft (Windows Defender i assume) detects the trojan i mentioned earlier.
Good to know that it is only a false positive!

Thank you for your quick answer!