I'm not sure if this will be of any help/relation at all or send you down deeper rabbit holes, but I'm on Windows 8.1 and the first time I run a new version of Soulash's .exe, Windows defender stops the program from running and pops up a warning that it is from an unknown publisher, from which I can resume operation normally. All this is honestly kinda standard on this windows version for me with any smaller early access titles, betas etc. Haven't gotten any of the weirdness that has been posted up above.