During the installation procedure of 2023 on my Windows 10 machine, Windows Defender triggered a message about blocking a backdoor virus ( cat sever ) : Backdoor:Win32/Bladabindi!ml affecting: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Downloaded Installations{03CB7BC4-3C9C-452B-BFD7-1C3616BE96BD}\SketchUp 2023…

Sure, there are quite a few other topics about this. Seems to be false positive alarm… devs are investigating.

I see. in any case the installer failed to complete the process. Does this mean that for now I can’t upgrade to 2023? [image]

You can update though! [image] Latest 2023-0-397-152 Installer – Trojan Backdoor:Win32/Bladabindi!ml Detected SketchUp I temporarily turned off Windows Security and installed successfully. As soon as the installer completed I turned Windows Security back on. As a precau…

is it the same about the full downloaded installer?

Yes. It is same. You need to temporarily disable MS Defender, (or use other, better antivirus sw)

I am brand new to SketchUp, currently looking to find a good tool to design an addition to our home. I have experienced both the corrupt .msi and the backdoor virus alert while trying to install 2023 Pro. Am I to believe before SketchUp DEV responds to this issue your recommendation is to disable Wi…

They have already responded: [image] Latest 2023-0-397-152 Installer – Trojan Backdoor:Win32/Bladabindi!ml Detected SketchUp

Yes, and there is a sha miss with it, which is basically a fingerprint check, which validates the software is the one they meant to deploy I don’t think this is a false positive, I think someone has modified the download file, presumably on a CDN (content deliver network). The virus checker also fo…

Backdoor virus found

SketchUp Pro

dezmo March 17, 2023, 9:57am 4

You can update though!

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Backdoor virus found

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