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Note: VMWare is not Microsoft. This is the tool in qeuestion:

https://www.vmware.com/products/carbon-black-cloud.html

We spent weeks debugging a problem, which eventually we needed remote access to debug, that turns out Carbon Black replacing a WIN32 library with something that got a segv in a certain situation. This was in the startup of our system.

Once we found that out, we told them to call VMware. They ended up whitelisting us.

Complete shitshow.

Yeah, and https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9850#64960 does mention false positives on Windows, for examples

Windows Defender detected Trojan.AndroidOS/Multiverze in Nim-1.6.10_64.zip https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9744#64108

Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7885#60008

These companies should be held legally responsible for defamation.

IIR, a malware developer or few has already tried suing AV makers for "defaming" their software.

There are many problems which an honest and competent legal system, working from timely and well-written laws, can ~cure. In the real world...the favorable adjectives are usually less applicable.

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