PUA:Win32/Sepdot malware detected in Windows build?

[MartinCapousek]

Microsoft Defender reporting mentioned malware. Do you know why? False positive?

[dead10ck]

I can tell you pretty confidently that there is no malware in the source code.

[MartinCapousek]

I wouldn't expect that for a widely used open-source project :). However, the last two Windows releases didn't pass (at least for me) checks by Microsoft Defender. The author of the build does not have to be the author of the source code itself... that is why I'm asking. As I'm not familiar with Rust (not able to build project by myself) I tried to use provided builds.

[dead10ck]

If you're downloading the builds from the GitHub Releases, then you can be confident MS Defender is incorrect.