# Trojan alert on downloading 3.4 AND 3.3.7!

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387 "2018-10-12T11:02:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jb0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jb0815](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb0815)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/1 "2018-10-12T11:02:32Z")

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Both versions have been removed from windows 10 defender as including TrojanDownloader:JS/Jasobfus.B!ml

What’s going on. Is it a serious alert or not. And if not, when will programmers fix it ?

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**Author:** ![neilcsmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/neilcsmith/32/144_2.png) [@neilcsmith](https://discourse.processing.org/u/neilcsmith)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/2 "2018-10-12T11:04:47Z")

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> [@jb0815](#):
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> And if not, when will programmers fix it ?

I don’t know, ask Microsoft! 😉

> <https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5665>
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> I download processing 3.4 from processing.org
> and after the download
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> Windows… defender tells me that : " TrojanDownloader:JS/Jasobfus.B!ml 
> category: Trojan Downloader 
> details: This program is dangerous and downloads other programs."
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> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/33312330/46258026-bb53bd80-c4cc-11e8-9852-c026646618b9.png)
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> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/33312330/46258042-dde5d680-c4cc-11e8-8a43-79686bf661a6.png)

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**Author:** ![jb0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jb0815](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb0815)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/3 "2018-10-15T07:49:54Z")

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not very helpful ! Has anybody seriously tried to discuss with MS ?  
And why theese two versions ? Must be something different, compared to forner versions…

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**Author:** ![neilcsmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/neilcsmith/32/144_2.png) [@neilcsmith](https://discourse.processing.org/u/neilcsmith)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/4 "2018-10-15T08:43:06Z")

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> [@jb0815](#):
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> not very helpful ! Has anybody seriously tried to discuss with MS ?

Have you seriously bothered to read the issue and related issues?!

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**Author:** ![jb0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jb0815](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb0815)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/5 "2018-10-15T09:05:27Z")

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No I hadn’t read all, only the first one , sorry for that !  
Allright seems to be a known problem

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**Author:** ![jb0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jb0815](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb0815)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/6 "2018-10-18T09:01:20Z")

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Hello again @neilcsmith,

since I was still unsure what to do about the virus warning I downloaded processing 3.4 through a linux machine and sent it to virustotal. There was 1 hit

NANO-Antivirus Exploit.Zip.Heuristic-java.csrvpr

It was hard to find any useful information about this  
Do you think it’s save anyway to use it ?

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**Author:** ![neilcsmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/neilcsmith/32/144_2.png) [@neilcsmith](https://discourse.processing.org/u/neilcsmith)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trojan-alert-on-downloading-3-4-and-3-3-7/4387/7 "2018-10-18T10:33:52Z")

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> [@jb0815](#):
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> Do you think it’s save anyway to use it ?

I would, but only _you_ can decide what you’re happy to use on _your_ computer!