Antivirus Bitdefender identifies PhotoStructure as a Malware

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I’ve had several beta users have reported issues with PhotoStructure on Windows when using third-party antivirus/antimalware packages.

Due to these false-positives, and the fact that these software packages have a history of security issues themselves, PhotoStructure on Windows is only supported when used with Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

Microsoft Defender Antivirus is the free and built-in antivirus for Windows 10 that was previously called Windows Defender.

I recommend all my Windows users get in the habit of using https://www.virustotal.com to scan any download. VirusTotal isn’t software you install: it’s a website that you drag the downloaded app onto, and it scans the app with some 50-odd virus scanners for free.

Here are the VirusTotal scans of the .7z installer package for v0.9.1 (one for the file, one for the URI):

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/79a48fc1f502b39262870a0b2b7a2e522a9558adc8f24361c51f2e6c411129b2/detection

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/5cd6976e22b9b61db9b3ef719bb052b0341c52cc6adc286ccb1526897151559f/detection

And for v1.0.0-alpha.7

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7b8ccc38d6946ab46ad684149dfed3781421f3915169aa2525db606cb84ed904/detection

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/86532ec0e6c0da56d3582ee185b5781d0c93c4cd3105896ca872984ea0139110/detection