Restic 0.10.0 for Windows and Jiangmin: false positive?

Hey, welcome back!

That’s not unexpected, I must say. Unfortunately, Go becomes more popular for writing malware. Most “anti-virus” engines are pretty dumb, they look for known parts of files. If the engine is configured to match on a part of the binary which belongs to the Go runtime (so it is embedded in every Go binary), then most Go binaries will be classified as a virus/trojan. There’s not much we can do about it (and it has happened before).

We don’t have the resources to talk to all the different vendors, so if you want to try it then please go ahead :slight_smile:

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