Defender Keeps Reporting Allowed Threats

[Chrissy Willow]

I've looked for answers to this but am not finding them. Windows Defender recently started detecting a utility we use at work (written by one of my coworkers in AutoIT) as malware. While we've made allowance for it through MDE, Defender on my home computer is also reporting it as malware. I've told it to allow the threat, but every day it keeps reporting the same files, many times offering corrective action so that I have to allow it each time.Is there a way to stop Defender from re-detecting an allowed threat? Should I just get the software allowed by Microsoft as it is a false positive? (I'm

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