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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint flagged `orca-terminal-daemon.exe` as MITRE T1036 (Masquerading): Orca copied its own `Orca.exe` into %LOCALAPPDATA% under a different name, specifically so the NSIS updater's `taskkill /IM Orca.exe` could not match, then ran it detached. Because that process is what every other flagged action was attributed to, the name mismatch acted as a reputation multiplier on unrelated findings. The rename was never what made the daemon survive. In app-builder-lib 26.15.3 the installer's FIND_PROCESS/KILL_PROCESS select processes whose image path is under $INSTDIR; `taskkill /IM` is only the fallback for hosts where PowerShell is missing or blocked. Survival is a property of the path, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Orca\daemon-host is outside $INSTDIR whatever the file is called. Derive the host exe name from process.execPath so the copy is byte-for-byte, name included — it keeps its Authenticode signature and carries no renamed-image signal. On the no-PowerShell fallback the daemon is now killed with the app and terminals cold-restore, which is the documented pre-relocation outcome the update harness already asserts, not a regression. The uninstall macro no longer needs a distinct name to find the daemon; it kills the app's own image name (plus the legacy name, for hosts left by older builds). Adds docs/reference/windows-daemon-host-relocation.md with the survival contract, the rejected alternatives and their measured costs, and the invariants to keep.