Windows Defender Recognize Excel-dna packed xll as virus

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FOMO

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Apr 24, 2022, 12:08:48 AM4/24/22
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Windows defender just deleted my addin build with excel-dna 

Vladimir Kozlov

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Apr 25, 2022, 2:43:56 AM4/25/22
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the same with mine. surprisingly, for more than a year on the same PC, he did not recognize xll files built with excel-dna as viruses, but now things changed?

воскресенье, 24 апреля 2022 г. в 07:08:48 UTC+3, georg...@gmail.com:

Govert van Drimmelen

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Apr 25, 2022, 5:20:35 AM4/25/22
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What version of the Defender signatures, and of Excel-DNA have you got?

You can try to update your project to the preview of Excel-DNA version 1.6.0.

 

I haven’t had problems from Defender for a while:

 

 

 

-Govert

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Vladimir Kozlov

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Apr 26, 2022, 3:39:05 AM4/26/22
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I use Microsoft Essentials, version 1.363.950.0
In Excel DNA Proj I use this:
  <package id="Excel-DNA" version="1.5.1" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="ExcelDna.AddIn" version="1.5.1" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="ExcelDna.Integration" version="1.5.1" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="ExcelDna.IntelliSense" version="1.5.1" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="ExcelDna.Interop" version="14.0.1" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="ExcelDna.Registration" version="1.5.1" targetFramework="net472" />
Thanks much, Govert for your answers and project!

понедельник, 25 апреля 2022 г. в 12:20:35 UTC+3, Govert van Drimmelen:

Takmil

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Sep 24, 2022, 6:56:37 AM9/24/22
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Same issue here. Glad that I found this out before I tried the addin on my work computer.

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Govert van Drimmelen

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Sep 24, 2022, 7:02:04 AM9/24/22
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I suggest you try the current pre-release version 1.6.0-rc1 of the NuGet packages.

-Govert

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Takmil

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Sep 24, 2022, 7:43:39 AM9/24/22
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Thanks for the suggestion. This seems to have placated windows defender.
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