Tag That Photo installer is reported as malware

Tag That Photo installer is reported as malware

Periodically reports like this show up from MS Defender and other malware programs - we run the program through VirusTotal on a regular basis and it comes up clean against 60+ virus engines.  What some of these scanners do is look for TCP/IP communications - and our face detector and face recognition engine communicate with the main program via an API over IP protocol.  Perhaps that appears to these tools like it is sending data remotely or trying to act as a local host.  All we can say is that is not the case. 

Here is the summary report on a recent build from VirusTotal:


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