Couldn't download a release on Windows, Defender is telling there is a trojan.

[vipaware]

I'm not sure if this is an app issue to be reported as an actual issue, hence I'm trying to put it here first.
On Windows I can't it seems download current 1.51.0 (and past one too) release. Tried different browsers, incognito modes (to remove extensions), nothing helped. Defender says there is a virus (and browsers report that too). See screenshots.
SHA256 of the archive is correct and matches SHA256 provided alongside with the zip.
I understand, it's might be a false positive, but it doesn't say about it anywhere on the homepage. Anyways, couldn't even try it because the file couldn't even land on my machine.

Windows Defender screenshot (these are all download tries):

[y3owk1n]

I actually have no idea why would this happen, it just an exe built with go directly. I am not sure how the defender works or what does it even flag at this case.

Will try to find out, but I personally do not daily drive a windows machine, so it'll take some time.

Edit:

It's very likely defender flags it because we are using global keyboard hooks, reading the screen and so on, which is similar as what malware or Trojan does.

There are ways forward where:

• code sign the binary with Microsoft, around $10 per month (too much for an open source as small as mine)
• user to explicitly add neru as an allowed list, since it's open source, you can easily ask Claude or codex to do a security audit on the codebase
• build from source directly and run it, that should be safe I think.

[vipaware]

I have never whitelisted anything before and will have to learn to do that now, thank you for reply 👍🏻

[y3owk1n]

I have never whitelisted anything before and will have to learn to do that now, thank you for reply 👍🏻

Me neither, but if you manage to make it work, please share some screenshots or steps for whitelisting, and I can add it to our docs section too, hopefully it helps someone.

Just a note that we are targeting v2 at the moment, v2 means that Linux and windows get feature parity comparing to our flagship Mac version. Right now Linux is considered done, I will complete the windows version soon, but no guarantee yet when it could be. As of the time of writing, windows support is very limited and only the most basic things are working.

[vipaware]

Today I gave it another attempt to redownload the zip, and it worked out fine! I don't know what was wrong earlier. Maybe Defender got an update, idk. Clearly, something changed and now it works.
Learning to use Neru now.
Good luck with v2! Looking forward to it!

[y3owk1n]

Today I gave it another attempt to redownload the zip, and it worked out fine! I don't know what was wrong earlier. Maybe Defender got an update, idk. Clearly, something changed and now it works.

Learning to use Neru now.

Good luck with v2! Looking forward to it!

Interesting, no idea why it works suddenly. Hahaha. Thanks! I will keep updating when we have good windows support.

[y3owk1n]

@vipaware its not v2 yet, but feel free to try out 1.52.0, we are now fully feature parity between macOS, linux and windows. You should be able to use most of the things that we marketed, and also overlay should be a lot nicer and faster now.