It’s the top result if you searched in GitHub about removing Microsoft edge, while it’s not detected by Windows Security, Eset or Kaspersky (the best av vendors) it’s being detected by other av engines, is it a false positive?

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    4 months ago

    Didn’t realize Edge actually had a file named setup.exe used for uninstalling. Though it’s quite suspicious they’d include their own file instead of using the one already included with Edge.

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      4 months ago

      I’m still looking into it myself tbh, so far I checked the checksums of the file itself, and the one that was active for the commit date 1/6/23 and the current edge installer exe, none of them match the file in the repo I don’t personally trust it either. The command line parameters are valid though, as in they appear to match the expected command line for the setup.exe file that should be in %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft\Edge\Application\xxx\Installer , with XXX being your edge version.