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What's the actual warning? Is is the one about "do you really trust this file you found online?" or is it Windows Defender saying it's infected?
It could potentially recognize from the metadata that the files were downloaded from the internet, but I'm not sure why it would do it to just a video file.
I tend to get warnings for things I install from the internet, not just video files I've downloaded.
It could also be an actual infected file that wasn't caught by AV before, but is with updated signatures. That or the current signatures could have a false positive. It happens
Exactly, which is why the type of warning they're getting matters.