# Microsoft Defender kills dopus.exe in 13-4-46

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Tags:** antivirus-issue\
**Created:** [November 16, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993 "2023-11-16T11:13:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![docbobo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/docbobo/32/13110_2.png) [@docbobo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/docbobo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/1 "2023-11-16T11:13:37Z")

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For whatever reason Microsoft Defender deletes dopus.exe for 13.4.46  
Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/2 "2023-11-16T11:16:03Z")

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Defender is trash. It's always a false positive. Please report it to Microsoft rather than us, or use a better antivirus.

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**Author:** ![docbobo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/docbobo/32/13110_2.png) [@docbobo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/docbobo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/3 "2023-11-16T11:19:35Z")

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Hey, I whitelisted it immediately because I trust dopus/GP.  
Just for info when people install .46 and see it vanish after 30 seconds.

((And EVERY antivirus prog is trash anyway, I trust none of them - nothing worse than having security bugs in software that you explicitly give low level access and boy has that happened a lot the past years.))

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/4 "2023-11-16T11:45:19Z")

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Defender accuses us of being a random virus every time our signing certificate changes, despite it being the most secure type of certificate that guarantees identity, and being normal/required for certificates to be replaced every few years.

ESET/NOD32 has never done this, not even once. There may be worse or equally bad antivirus as Defender but there are also much better as well. Frankly, we're tired of dealing with the support hassle Microsoft cause us.

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**Author:** ![errante](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/errante/32/61692_2.png) [@errante](https://resource.dopus.com/u/errante)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/5 "2023-11-16T12:58:33Z")

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FWIW, The same thing was happening with **Everything** a few weeks ago. See [here](https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=61566&hilit=virus#p61566).  
Apparently, voidtools contacted Microsoft to send a false positive report, and there have been no further incidents since then.

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**Author:** ![Amorax](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/amorax/32/37796_2.png) [@Amorax](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Amorax)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/microsoft-defender-kills-dopus-exe-in-13-4-46/46993/6 "2023-11-16T13:16:07Z")

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Clean as a whistle.

> **[VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/09c1a10063547536173f9f69ffd1e9425525454edc457a1d9c4c84734326e7b3)**
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> VirusTotal