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Windows Defender flagged your download. It shows that a trojan is present in your game files. Explain?

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Windows Defender is one of the worst antiviruses. There is nothing more to explain to you, since you are not asking, but demanding.

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Most anti virus apps warn about games from itch, but 90% of them are perfectly  fine :) 

Thanks for the clarification! I never had mine go off and I have downloaded a small handful of games off of itch. I was worried mine was a bad egg

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This is the very first time a game on Itch was flagged by Windows Defender, on my side. This is probably really worth the suspicion, especially for what should just be an HTML file running on Twine / SugarCube and some media files.

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All anti-virus apps err on the side of caution if it doesn't know the file or application being downloaded, especially if on the surface it's details match files that were found to be untrustworthy. Basically, Windows Defender has an algorithm in place that will flag some apps as "Trojan" unless proven that it isn't malicious, which is kind of a plague on downloadable indie games, but to be fair the internet is very untrustworthy and you should always be careful.