# Windows Defender reports virus in Downloads

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742 "2018-10-22T10:34:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![steved](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@steved](https://discourse.processing.org/u/steved)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742/1 "2018-10-22T10:34:36Z")

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Windows Defender reports virus in Downloads, on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Processing. I have tried again on a different machine (still with Windows 10) and get the same issue…

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**Author:** ![Sarah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sarah/32/1675_2.png) [@Sarah](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Sarah)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742/2 "2018-10-22T10:35:29Z")

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See:

> <https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5442>

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**Author:** ![steved](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@steved](https://discourse.processing.org/u/steved)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742/3 "2018-10-22T10:41:44Z")

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This was back in March. I am on latest Windows Defender updates, and this is still a problem. This must be a big turn-off for your customers and I am very surprised that 7 months later it is still an issue.

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/windows-defender-reports-virus-in-downloads/4742/4 "2018-10-23T22:32:45Z")

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Well, Processing is volunteer driven, open source, and free – so I think it doesn’t have “customers” (although you may donate money to the non-profit). This issue is also completely controlled by Microsoft – Processing coders can’t do anything directly except file false positive reports, only Microsoft can change their proprietary, secret detector code that is giving a false reading in this case.

> Submitted to Microsoft as a false positive: [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission) which is all we can do at this point.

If you would like to also submit another false positive report, it would be appreciated! Microsoft _does_ have customers, and I think this would be a big turn-off for them. But then, I don’t run Windows…