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Rainmeter virus detection

Particlee
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Does anybody know whether the rainmeter site got hacked or is it just a false positive?

I've got a popup from my old version of the app that a new version is available (4.5.24), but when I download it from the site it's automatically deleted by Windows Defender.
It's on the official site (https://www.rainmeter.net/) and I got redirected from the official app that I had before so I don't know what's up with that

 

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https://github.com/rainmeter/rainmeter/releases

 

The hash for the file from Github is sha256:714770f49a7a27fcd15b90136c1d875459f8ed1a7fce85366af6dbb8b19455e9

 

The hash for the file downloaded from Rainmeter.net is also sha256:714770f49a7a27fcd15b90136c1d875459f8ed1a7fce85366af6dbb8b19455e9

 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/714770f49a7a27fcd15b90136c1d875459f8ed1a7fce85366af6dbb8b19455e9

 

The hash is the same, so I think it's fine.

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21 minutes ago, Particlee said:

Does anybody know whether the rainmeter site got hacked or is it just a false positive?

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=242321
also:
https://github.com/rainmeter/rainmeter/issues/435
 

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When we don't do a release for a long time interval, we get these false positives for a couple of days. It will settle down soon.

 

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