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I’m fine with people reporting this stuff, it’s actually good and helpful since it lets me address it, casually accusing me of a crime is what provoked the response I gave, which I don’t even think was rude in that context, but you are entitled to your opinion. I also think speculating half-cocked as to what happened and how and how certain you are the game was definitely compromised was a bit annoying, but people do that, it’s normal to trust your virus software. It really was the accusation for me.

If I am the source of this malware, that would be a crime, not just a breach of ethics or something. It’s something I would never do. It’s not impossible a dependency I use could be infected with malware, though I am extremely careful to scan my code base when I update anything. I would never purposefully create or distribute malware. I take safety, security, and data privacy extremely seriously, and I take my responsibility as a guest running code on your computer extremely seriously. I think even the suggestion that I decided to add malware to my game is damaging to my reputation, especially if this had been the top comment for any length of time.

Microsoft sure isn’t helping things with their lazy, sloppy virus defs, but this isn’t even the first time one virus software or another has given a version of this game a false positive, it actually has happened a few times. However, this is the first time anyone has ever suggested I am creating or distributing malware on purpose.