File incorrectly flagged as malicious by SmartScreen

[Pinguin2001]

The binary is currently being flagged as malicious by SmartScreen

[johngagefaulkner]

This is expected behavior.

For those who may be reading this and wondering why: Notifying users that they're downloading a .dll file that hasn't been seen by SmartScreen before is one part of how SmartScreen attempts to protect users who otherwise may not know any better (read: elderly, etc.) This behavior will persist until the file has been downloaded (and then not reported it as malware) by users enough times that it builds a trust with SmartScreen. In other words, in this case, this means nothing other than SmartScreen is working as intended and it will fix itself over time. 🤗

EDIT: For what it's worth, I've been using SvgSee for years (the PowerToys SVG Thumbnail file explorer extension never worked for me... on any PC... ever) and it has been rock solid. However, I would have to watch the amount of images I had in a single directory because once I started getting upwards of ~3,000 SVG files, I could notice file explorer's performance dropping dramatically. SO FAR, (it has been 1 day lol), I haven't noticed any similar issues from this Rust implementation.

EDIT EDIT: As I'm sure this repo will soon explode in popularity, I went ahead and ran a VirusTotal Scan for future questions: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5f2fd5e775bac96006b146b2fe09f912007269980d23652f4c9304b81e18aa55/detection

[ThioJoe]

Yea I think it's not necessarily flagging as explicitly malicious, it probably just blocks dlls in general that don't have a reputation yet.

However, I would have to watch the amount of images I had in a single directory because once I started getting upwards of ~3,000 SVG files, I could notice file explorer's performance dropping dramatically.

@johngagefaulkner At the risk of going off topic, I'm no expert but apparently SvgSee might have a memory leak where this data variable is never deallocated. So the more thumbnails it generates the more memory it's gonna take up. That could be why.