Windows Defender Found a Trojan Horse in a wine-devel deb file

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philthethrill
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Windows Defender Found a Trojan Horse in a wine-devel deb file

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Windows Defender found a Trojan horse in a wine-devel 5.14 Deb file. I was running Wine in a WSL2 Linux distro.
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Re: Windows Defender Found a Trojan Horse in a wine-devel deb file

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The deb file contains files that have the same filename as Windows system files, but are not binary identical. It is possible that Windows Defender thinks they are malware pretending to be system files.
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Re: Windows Defender Found a Trojan Horse in a wine-devel deb file

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That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying that for me Bamm.
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