Malware?

[HughMungis]

I uploaded the .exe to virustotal and there are a lot of detections saying that this is malware. Why is this happening?

[acarapetis]

It's a false positive.

We use pyinstaller to pack this python app into a single .exe that anyone can run on Windows. A lot of malware authors do the same thing - write some malware in python and package it with pyinstaller. Unfortunately, this has led to some antivirus software just flagging anything built with pyinstaller as malware.

Not much that can be done about it without submitting every release to all those antivirus vendors for manual evaluation, not going to happen for a hobby project like this.

At the end of the day, whenever you download and run software from the internet you're trusting the author. A green light from virustotal does not guarantee there's no malware there, just as a red light does not guarantee there is. Gotta make your own risk assessment.