Update prompted Windows security warning?

[bikerchris]

Hi there,

Can anyone confirm if this is normal behaviour when updating from version 22.0.354 64-bit?

Many thanks,

Chris

[DaveR]

There have been a couple of other threads on this topic already. Some folks are getting that message. Others haven’t. I didn’t get any warning when I installed the new 2023 maintenance release yesterday. At this point I think we’re waiting for a response from someone at SketchUp.

[SketchUp3D_de]

appears to be a ‘wrong positive’:

VirusTotal

[tominthegong]

Waiting waiting !

[DaveR]

@tominthegong

Waiting waiting !

Pay attention:

Latest 2023-0-397-152 Installer – Trojan Backdoor:Win32/Bladabindi!ml Detected

Tagging @WebHorst because I think he is the person investigating this.

Unable to update Sketchup 2023 due to a MD5 checksum issue

I heard back from that team. Here is their response: Before we release a new SketchUp installer, we always run it through VirusTotal. VirusTotal uses dozens of scanners including BitDefender, AVG, Kaspersky, and McAfee just to name a few. We have a clean bill of health for this installer and would only release it if that were the case. Furthermore, we always find a few false positives that could be system dependent or AV scanner dependent. We have filed a report with the Microsoft security tea…

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[bikerchris]

Thank you @DaveR