Bug 20325 – Windows Defender detects msbuild\pipelink.exe as a trojan virus

I just had Windows Defender report a malicious program: C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\msbuild\pipelink.exe In the "detected item" column, it says "Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.E!cl" The version of Visual D is 0.50.1, and Windows Defender updated its virus definitions at 14:30 UTC today, October 26th. I assume this is a false positive?

Digitally signing the file seems to convince most AV programs that it is harmless. A preliminary build is here: https://gist.github.com/rainers/6cdf73b48837defb9f88/raw/72489c399e1c0e889a13e6efb1015957e65a5405/pipelink.exe

I reported the false positive to Microsoft and they removed it, but this will likely continue to happen.

(In reply to Timothy Seguine from comment #2) > I reported the false positive to Microsoft and they removed it, but this > will likely continue to happen. Cool, thanks. The next release will have this file signed, too, so it is less likely to happen again.

https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.51.0-beta1 contains a signed version of pipelink.exe