FAQs - Meshtastic Flasher

Overview

Why does my operating system flag Meshtastic Flasher as having malware?

The flasher contains no malware and completely passed the Microsoft malware scanning. It appears that a lot of file download services are using the Windows Defender data, so if you're seeing alerts of a detected trojan please update your Windows Defender definitions.

What if I'm still having issues on Windows 10?

It's been reported that App execution aliases might conflict with one another and prevent python3 from being able to run properly. There is an example of a fix located here.