Hi

Win7 / 64

I did a herdprotect scan, and factoriotestunit.exe gets flagged as suspicious

File name:factoriotestunit.exe
MD5:d557519d172d131ecac4ce8d2e708179
SHA-1:0b4a725a1f50684c4981cbb079a1ab7a69085419
SHA-256:7f6cabfbe800e193a15513e36563be158a55702cb0d3b4660460bedb971b0e25
Analysis
Scanner ...

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