Maybe someone who works in IT or has some general knowledge regarding system security can answer my question.
I'm on Windows 10. Windows Defender flags the BOI-Rebirth .exe file as a potential unwanted program (first it was Win32/Puamson.a!ml, now it flags it as Win32/Uwamson.a!ml - it's supposed to be adware, as far as I understand).
I launched the game twice before Defender started to block the executable, so theoretically, if the game were to be actually infected with malware, my system would already be compromised.
Now I know it's most certainly false positive but my problem is this:
If I allow the game executable as an exception, does that mean, that I'd create a vulnerability i.e. my system would be more succeptible to the Puamson/Uwamson malware infection coming either from a different program or a drive-by malware attack while browsing the internet? Or is whitelisting the game only adds that one specific executable as a exception and doesn't really have any impact on how my anti-virus works?