Windows Defender detects C:\Program Files\WezTerm\strip-ansi-escapes.exe as malware

[carterols]

What Operating System(s) are you seeing this problem on?

Windows

Which Wayland compositor or X11 Window manager(s) are you using?

No response

WezTerm version

20240203-110809-5046fc22

Did you try the latest nightly build to see if the issue is better (or worse!) than your current version?

No, and I'll explain why below

Describe the bug

This is on a work computer and it is safer to just uninstall wezterm, so I did not update Wezterm.

Windows detects C:\Program Files\WezTerm\strip-ansi-escapes.exe as containing a Trojan virus.

To Reproduce

Download the executable and run windows defender on it... My company's Windows Defender might be configured differently, so you may or may not find a threat. This could be a false positive.

Configuration

no config

Expected Behavior

I didn't expect WezTerm to contain a Trojan Virus. This could be a false positive though

Logs

No response

Anything else?

No response

[valerian]

I have the same issue, on a regular default windows defender

[dbs]

SentinelOne also considers strip-ansi-escapes a threat (using the Windows stable installer build as of five minutes ago):

What are you trying to do to us, Wez? :)

[NotYourAlejandro]

A check on VirusTotal shows a very concerning result: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ac6b05ae682c120778791eb942895db8fe1e513787c718df6996a3895d82c1c3

[carterols]

Is @wez the only contributor to this project? Can someone figure out if this was malicious or an accident? Kinda concerning...

[NotYourAlejandro]

Apparently this issue is a duplicate of #5074. The tag on that issue states it's fixed in the nightly build.

[wez]

Duplicate of #5074

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