Post by Sascha Rode in SDF Modeler comments

Viewing post in SDF Modeler comments

Hi,

So far, the only similar reports I’ve received were caused by Avast incorrectly flagging meshoptimizer.dll as a threat. The DLL is built directly from the official meshoptimizer sources on GitHub, so unfortunately I’m not sure why some antivirus products are detecting it.

A few users were able to work around the issue by adding the DLL (or the SDF Modeler folder) as an exception in their antivirus software. If you’re using Avast or another security product, it might be worth checking whether the file has been quarantined or blocked.

At the moment there’s not much I can do on my end beyond investigating alternatives for future releases.

Cheers,
Sascha

Focal Flare11 days ago (1 edit)

👍🏾

For the deletion part, I don't know whether or not this issue is actually from that due to my antivirus being triggered whenever I try to launch the current version of SDF Modeler--as I assumed that it might've been an error in the file or program itself (or just Windows 11 being Windows 11 😂), but using McAfee Total Protection, I did another test where I inserted the file from the ZIP archive file into a test folder and scanned just the file itself. McAfee picked it up as a "threat" [ti!6C7D6B7BD72A] and deleted it (in this case, quarantined).

I don't know if I'm checking the right repository for meshoptimizer, but I did see that another person had experienced this false positive where Windows Defender also picked it up as a trojan.

Totally not forgetting to post this reply, SDF Modeler seems to work again after adding the file as an exclusion.

Sascha Rode10 days ago(+1)

Glad you got it running.

I’ll keep looking into the issue and see if there’s a better long-term solution than relying on antivirus exclusions.

Cheers, Sascha

itch.io

Viewing post in SDF Modeler comments