Xpra: Ticket #2781: xpra 4.0 wrongly detected as Trojan:Win32/Sprisky.D!cl

Trojan:Win32/Sprisky.D!cl: This detection uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify new and emerging malware. It is designed to catch threats with varied impact, including banking trojans, botnets, ransomware, cryptominers, and backdoors.

Microsoft, your AI needs work.



Thu, 28 May 2020 04:45:50 GMT - Antoine Martin: attachment set

windows defender trying to be smart


Thu, 28 May 2020 04:48:14 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

The false positive has been reported here: filesubmission. Not much else we can do. Users can install the "Client" builds, as those don't have the html5 client.

Funny that it's the html5 client that's triggering it this time.

windows defender trying to be smart


Fri, 29 May 2020 02:28:46 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Official response:

xpra-python3-x86_64_4.0.1-r26379.zip
Submission ID: c525bd8e-01cc-44fb-9a46-ed0804f16fc0
Status: Completed
Submitted: May 28, 2020 11:40:53
User Opinion: Incorrect detection
Analyst comments:
We have removed the detection. Please follow the steps below to clear cached detection and obtain the latest malware definitions.

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 06:00:39 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2781