Nim and Go programs identified as malware on Windows

• Nim

  348 16,104 9.9 Nim

  Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  

We ship Microsoft-signed Win32 binaries via PyPI, and I regularly have to go and deal with new releases being reported as malware.

Granted, this is a debugger, which among other things contains code to inject threads into running processes - which, of course, trips any decent heuristic scanner. But there are many broadly legitimate patterns that are also useful to malware and so get falsely reported as such, e.g. https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19767

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,081 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

Windows Defender reports plenty of false positives, most recently for me with Pyinstaller (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pyinstaller+windows+defender&ia=we...). They're all just bad.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• nlvm

  11 682 6.9 Nim

  LLVM-based compiler for the Nim language

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