Yea probably not! Always good to do a spot check though with Malwarebytes (my preferred antivirus software) when downloading new files. Most indie games and software dont carry viruses. But you can never be too safe. I usually scan with Malwarebytes like once a week if I've downloaded stuff recently!
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THE "TROJAN" PEOPLE ARE ENCOUNTERING IS WHAT IS KNOWN AS A FALSE POSITIVE. READ BELOW TO FIND OUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS AND WHY IT IS NOT A VIRUS.
Commenting here for people finding a "trojan" when windows scans the game. Listen closely, "Trojan : Script / Wacatac . B!ml" is being detected by windows security because it has the word "Trojan" in the file. This does not mean it is a Trojan Virus. I have had experiences with this exact file in the past. If you were to go to the XBOX app on PC, download Call Of Duty Modern Warefare 3 from Game Pass, you will surprisngly find that Windows Defender detects "Trojan : Script / Wacatac . B!ml". This was the exact issue I ran into when downloading Call Of Duty a few months back. After doing research I came to find alot of misinformation regarding the file, because it has the word Trojan, many are mislead to think it is a virus, this is not the case. My research lead me to a twitter post of someone who did a deep dive to get to the root of what it was. Here is what they had to say in their post "The security industry is full of absolute stupidity. Lets give a name to a program which opens a local UDP socket. How about "Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml". Yeah that sounds both meaningless and scary. Ok now let's mark it Severe, but provide no information about what it does. To be clear, a friend made this .NET OSC tracker application. It is not malware of any kind. Another friend's application also triggers Wacatac. Of course, since there is no explanation about what this check means, it only wastes a lot of time teaching people to click allow." I hope this clears up any confusion surrounding the supposed "Trojan". If windows defender pops up for an indie game 999 times out of 1000 it is a false positive and you can usually click "more info" and then "download anyway". Be sure to support the developer and give the game another try with this new found information. Have a great day or night!