Tag: Security

Windows Defender false positive for LWJGL 3.3.4 in Gaia Sky 3.8.0

By tsagrista on

We have received reports that Windows Defender may detect the file lwjgl-3.3.4-natives-windows-x86.jar included with Gaia Sky as a threat.

We investigated the issue and found strong evidence that this is a false positive affecting the upstream LWJGL 3.3.4 library. The LWJGL project has an issue documenting antivirus detections of its 3.3.4 release, including a Trojan:Win32/Vigorf.A detection by Windows Security:

https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/issues/1005

Similar reports were also made by users of Necesse, another application using LWJGL. In that case, antivirus software specifically detected the same lwjgl-3.3.4-natives-windows-x86.jar file. The developers subsequently removed the file because it is only needed for 32-bit Windows: