Vassal Engine 3.5.8 blocked by Windows Defender

Technical Support & Bugs
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Windows 10 OS

When I attempt to download Vassal-3.5.8-windows-64.exe, Windows Defender reports Threat Detected
Trojan:Win32/Emali.A!cl
This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

webfile: C:\Users\PC\Downloads\VASSAL-3.5.8-windows-64.exe|https://github-releases.githubusercontent.com/259141504/b804e080-d876-11eb-86d3-383282500d27?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20210701%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210701T061617Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=8089796b5d7177ab91bbeba11926740b062d576900ba6c13c33c73cc4a480440&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=259141504&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DVASSAL-3.5.8-windows-64.exe&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream|pid:1036,ProcessStart:132695937892276651

Is there really a problem with this version? Can I obtain a clean version elsewhere (earlier version perhaps)?

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This is a false positive. We reported it to Microsoft yesterday.

We post SHA2-256 hashes for each release so you can verify your download if you want. Direct link github.com/vassalengine/vassal/ … 5.8.sha256

In case you’d rather check the MD5 or SHA1 of VASSAL-3.5.8-windows-64.exe, those are:

MD5: fc15a5ec17fc3ca75abce1ba2f441823
SHA1: f055b54801a1d2a4b4af7049e7dc9a9f793a0a25

3

I received a reply just now that 3.5.8 has been removed from the Windows Defender definitions. If you update Windows Defender, 3.5.8 should not longer be detected.

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Excellent. Many thanks.