Brave Beta detected as malware - true or false?

[Mattches]

@MediaBird, no worries! Appreciate you reaching out about it.
That said, it is a known issue we’ve seen reported by many users:

Question on auto-update (anti-virus related)

Kaspersky AND Comodo have this detected as malware for me. I just reported it to Comodo as a FP and the same with Kapsersky. Running Windows 10 64 bit here.

Can't install the developer builds on Win7

While waiting for a crash bug to be fixed, I got a tip from @LaurenWags about testing the developer builds. I cannot seem to install it though. The symptoms I get are described here: Brave crashes when opening a particular site I’m running on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional system and I use the Windows firewall plus Kaspersky Free Antivirus. I have tried without both the firewall and the antivirus though, but still no luck. Is the temporary developer build installer a Win10 only component, or s…

We had a similar situation with Malwarebytes when the Developer build launched:
https://community.brave.com/t/backdoor-bot-found-by-malwarebytes/31962/14

To answer your question: No, no viruses have infiltrated! Its just us
We’re currently in communication with Kaspersky about the false positive and working to get the issue resolved as soon as possible. I’ll be sure to update everyone here in Community on the status of the issue once we here back.