Miqo Deleted – Virus Detected?

[AvsParticipant]

I’ve been using Miqo for over almost a year now with no issues. I was running squadrons when it randomly exited the miqo app. I can’t find the app any longer on my desktop (so im guessing it was deleted or quarantined). I went to download another copy of it – thinking I just did something stupid, and it won’t download. Says the file contains a virus. … I switched browsers and got the same thing. I don’t have any third party antivirus apps running . Now I’m a bit lost how to troubleshoot from here. Any ideas how to figure this one out?

[MiqobotKeymaster]

This issue usually indicates that your antivirus has downloaded an update which introduced a new false positive bug.
If you don’t use third party antiviruses, then most likely this problem is caused by Windows Defender.

Even if you did not experience this problem before, it doesn’t mean that you never will. Antiviruses are updated often and each update has a chance to introduce a new false positive bug.
We highly recommend to report this behavior to your antivirus vendor.

In order to download Miqobot, you will have to disable your antivirus and whitelist your Miqobot application after download.

[AvsParticipant]

Thanks! I found a work around 🙂

[whiteroomlivingParticipant]

Is that why when I turned on Miqo today, I got an IDP.ALEXA.52 trojan threat blocked for miqoradar.exe? Do I just whitelist it?

[LutBotParticipant]

whiteroomliving wrote:

Is that why when I turned on Miqo today, I got an IDP.ALEXA.52 trojan threat blocked for miqoradar.exe? Do I just whitelist it?

Provided you still want to use miqo, Yes. It wont be the last time your AV triggers with miqo, so keep that in mind.

[3pgbParticipant]

Miqo technically is a trojan since it does access and modify data running in system memory, but that is its intended purpose so we have to whitelist/restore it every time it gets flagged/quarantined. Since Miqo is also not open source we have to trust the developers as well, but that’s a risk one should’ve assessed before deciding to run any software not just Miqo.

[whiteroomlivingParticipant]

I had assumed, but wanted to double check. Thanks!

[RandomParticipant]

I’m still unable to whitelist Miqo since once I downloaded it, Windows Defender just instantly removes it.
I turned off Windows Defender, whitelisted it. Once I turn Windows Defender back on, it removes Miqo when I run it.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by  Random.

[AvsParticipant]

I’m still unable to whitelist Miqo since once I downloaded it, Windows Defender just instantly removes it.
I turned off Windows Defender, whitelisted it. Once I turn Windows Defender back on, it removes Miqo when I run it.

I was having a similar issue, here is how I went about fixing it.
Open the windows security menu
Click virus and threat protection
Choose ‘Protection History’
Find one of the miqobot ‘threats’ and click allow.

Then all i had to do was redownload miqo.

Hope this helps!

[RandomParticipant]

It works now. Thanks for the help!

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