Windows Defender causing JOSM problems

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 08:46:27 UTC 2018


Windows Defender has apparently taken offense to JOSM in the latest
malware signature update. Starting on February 19th mine started
claiming to detect a trojan named Skeeyah.H in 3 different class files
inside of the JOSM JAR. Defender helpfully removed these class files
from the JAR. JOSM is not amused by this and crashes on launch with a
NoClassDefFoundError.

I just double checked on my TV computer that runs nothing but Zwift
(virtual bicycle riding to stay fit in the winter months) and it
detected the same thing so I'm pretty sure it is just a false positive
and not me actually being infected with something :)

I just submitted a false positive report to Microsoft. No clue if that
will get anywhere. But I thought I would say something here in case
anyone else runs into this problem.

Toby



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