Hey there,
I was just randomly sorting some linux workstation’s old system backups on a windows machine and noticed that Windows Defender alarmed me of the finding of Win32/Wacatac.C!ml in the file deadlinebalancer.exe which is part of the Deadline Client installation. I checked against VirusTotal which showed that no engine except Defender and “SecureAge APEX” detects the malware, so I assume it is a false positive. There was a thread a while back mentioning Defender blacklisting the Linux Installers without specifically mentioning deadlinebalancer.exe so I figured I double check here. The file is from a 10.0.28.2 installation, its SHA-256 hash is a7434e9ed940da2ca58f62ac48e257fcaba2603e64a003b38b45b97c4ae2af75
Best regards,
Til