Installing Kubo client for windows - ipfs.exe is a virus?

[SSantiago90]

Hi! I've tried installing the kubo client on windows following this instructions on the official docs

Everytime I unpack the files, the ipfs executable file gets removed. Here is a screen capture from windows defenter

Basically windows is telling me there is a Trojan and the file is quarantined

[gammazero]

Can you please try with the latest version of kubo. If the problem still exists, can you verify the hash of the exe, so that we can verify that is was not altered post-download.

This may be the scanner triggering a false-positive on some byte-pattern:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6b9fe8e8995d6953bdca0ba440be22669a72a6e690c2782deb5fdeb7f3a388c9

You can upload the exe to https://www.virustotal.com and see if this is a problem detected by multiple anti-virus scanners or is triggering only yours.