Incorrect Anti-Virus detections (updated 2021-6-10)
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 6:51 pm
Windows Defender and other Anti-Virus products are detecting BallroomDJ.exe as malware.
This is incorrect.
There is no malware in the BallroomDJ distribution.
At this time, I recommend adding the BallroomDJ folder (often C:\Users\your-user-name\Desktop\BallroomDJ or
C:\Users\your-user-name\BallroomDJ) as an exclusion to Windows Defender.
Avast has updated their definitions.
I believe Symantec is also fixed.
There does not appear to be any easy way to submit false positives to McAfee.
MicroSoft has fixed the issue:
This is incorrect.
There is no malware in the BallroomDJ distribution.
At this time, I recommend adding the BallroomDJ folder (often C:\Users\your-user-name\Desktop\BallroomDJ or
C:\Users\your-user-name\BallroomDJ) as an exclusion to Windows Defender.
Avast has updated their definitions.
I believe Symantec is also fixed.
There does not appear to be any easy way to submit false positives to McAfee.
MicroSoft has fixed the issue:
Analyst comments:
We have removed the detection. Please follow the steps below to clear cached detection and obtain the latest malware definitions.
1. Open command prompt as administrator and change directory to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender
2. Run “MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures”
3. Run "MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate"
Alternatively, the latest definition is available for download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions