Microsoft VSCode terminal false-positively quarantines NodeJS and NPM

[duvkata]

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Code, one of the most popular source-code editors out there. It has an option to open up a terminal window inside of the program, either cmd.exe, powershell or else.

Well, today after I launched VSCode and the terminal inside, Malwarebytes detected both NodeJS and NPM as an exploit or "Malware.Exploit.Agent.Generic" to be exact. Now it says both files are quarantined and I need to restart my computer and NPM itself is no longer working.

I believe this could have something to do with an NPM update I did yesterday, updated to 6.14.5, not sure what the previous version was, maybe 6.14.1.

I remember reporting a very similar problem earlier this year, so I'm not sure why this problem is occurring again, especially since these tools and programs are used by millions of developers out there.

I am attaching the logs from C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\MBAMService\AeDetections to this message.

mbam.zip

[duvkata]

Update:

Upon restarting the computer, then uninstalling Node, then installing the latest version (was using 14.4.0, now I'm using 14.12.0 (very latest)) seems to fix the issue in VSCode, or at least I can't reproduce it as right now.