Windows 10 Defender Blocks Portable App Download
Thank you for all you hard work to create, support, and maintain MuseScore.
I just tried to download the portable app from the downloads link: https://musescore.org/en/download/musescore-portable.exe and Windows Defender flagged the file as being possibly harmful to my computer.
Running Windows 10, all updates installed (checked today), and I was browsing using an updated version of Edge (Chromium).
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Use Configuration Manager to configure PUA protection?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/mic…
In reply to Use Configuration Manager to… by Shoichi
Shoichi, thank you for taking the time to respond. I read into this a little bit more and learned that this is Microsoft's implementation of "Reputation-based Protection." I wonder if there is a formal process in place for communicating with Microsoft to request that their Definition Database be updated so that Musescore is not labeled as a PUA (Potentially Unwanted App). I figure you guys would want to know since building software to have it flagged as potentially unwanted without justification is akin to raising a beautiful child only to find out nobody wants to date them because somebody said, "She/he might have herpes." Just seems lame to me.