urc.exe and urc.dll get flagged as Malware from Microsoft Defender

tosho · April 13, 2024, 9:48pm

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Summary

I’ve installed UEFN like a day ago. I was able to try the editor and play a tutorial project. Today I get a message from Microsoft Defender that it found a threat - urc.exe and urc.dll - as Agent Tesla RAT.
I didn’t have such a threat before. Could be this a false positive or it really got infected (and why exactly urc.exe)

Steps to Reproduce

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Expected Result

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Observed Result

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Platform(s)

Windows 10 x64 PRO

Jimbohalo10 · April 14, 2024, 2:57am

hi open Windows Security select Virus & threat protection

Select Scroll down to Exceptions

add the Unreal Fornite binary

the same happened .Put urc.exe Unreal Revision Control to excluded list

urc.dll does not exist in Fortnite on my system

now verify using post 6

Punkcat · April 14, 2024, 8:11pm

Same here. Windows Defender silently quarantined the file.

The effect in UEFN:

Cannot save
Cannot connect to revision control

IsYaXenoBoi · April 14, 2024, 10:44pm

They said the solution is to update Windows Defender. After updating Windows Defender nothing happened, still can’t save or connect to revision control. Now I have to keep waiting for UEFN to Auto-Save just so I can save all the changes I made.