@lavamanheroVLO (View Post)
Please see my last post, it has instructions for how to ignore this error. Powder Toy has not, and has never been a virus. Microsoft just doesn't want you downloading programs off websites like ours. Problem is, this website is the only method we have of distributing the app.

@bird1213333 (View Post)
Version 44.4 was uploaded 2 weeks ago. My mod's usage is somewhat down recently, so windows defender hasn't seen the .exe file enough to trust it yet.

And by the time it trusts it I'll probably have a new version out ... that's just how it goes.

@bird1213333 (View Post)
Can you send a screenshot? With any specifics you can find about a "trojan". Windows defender doesn't usually say that, but it will always do it's best to block people from downloading .exe files from the internet. It might just have a generic message like "untrusted applications may be a trojan". This isn't an accusation of a virus, it's just stating the fact that if you download something untrusted from the internet, you don't know what it is, and it could be a virus.
So you have to trust that it's not a virus, which in this case it isn't. I wouldn't develop this mod for 9 years then suddenly put in a virus and ruin its reputation.

@bird1213333 (View Post)
Weird that it is saying that, since I've never seen Windows defender claim there is an actual virus in TPT.

I just tested it myself, and I can confirm Windows Defender has a problem with the latest version of the mod. I ran it through an online virus scanner which checks the majority of antiviruses, and it can confirm it's not actually a virus: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6e8ecc51542b663311e414f112ef195aa600e03551366da036535e12e8717ad8/detection

To tell it to ignore it, open up Windows defender, click on "Protection History", then click on Actions -> Allow on device


This also allows the mod to be updated, for anyone stuck on 44.2 that needs to update to 44.4