fpenezic/ssh-tool v0.96.0

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Fixed

• Windows Defender no longer removes the download. Defender's cloud
  model classified the v0.95.0 Windows binary as
  Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.A!ml and deleted it on arrival. Nothing in the
  binary was ever malicious - that verdict comes from a machine-learning
  classifier, and the pattern it matched was how v0.95.0 created its
  Start Menu shortcut: it ran powershell.exe with
  -ExecutionPolicy Bypass against a script dropped into %TEMP%, which
  used WScript.Shell to write a .lnk into the Start Menu, with the
  console window hidden. Each of those is ordinary installer behaviour,
  but together, inside one unsigned executable, they are also the
  textbook description of malware installing itself. The shortcut is now
  created by calling the Windows shell directly (IShellLink), which is
  what the PowerShell wrapper was doing underneath anyway - no script, no
  temp file, no spawned process.

  Worth knowing if you hit this on v0.95.0: the file only tripped the
  check when it arrived from the internet, so a copy that was already on
  disk kept working, which made it look intermittent. If Defender removed
  yours, download again on this version.

• A development build can update to a release again. Running a build
  from the source tree, the update check would offer the new version and
  then refuse the download outright: "this is a development build, not a
  release". The refusal was protecting something real, since installing a
  release over your own build destroys it, but it left no way forward
  inside the app. It is now a confirmation rather than a wall - it says
  what will be overwritten, and proceeds if you agree. Only relevant if
  you build ssh-tool yourself.