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mouser:
I just sent this as a reply to 2 emails i've gotten recently, reporting viruses in skrommel's compiled ahk utilities (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/).

"ugh, this antivirus false alarm stuff can be so stressful.
i assure you, there are no viruses in donationcoder.com software.

certain antivirus programs are super paranoid about the "autohotkey",
the language that these programs are written in.  it's incredibly
frustrating when the antivirus tells people it has found viruses.  if
you search the internet for the the alarm it gives you and
"autohotkey" youll probably find a bunch of people cursing out the
antivirus and having the same problem.

which antivirus program are you using by the way?

the utility that gave you the warning is from Skrommel's One Hour
Software page, one way you can know you can trust these is that all of
them you can download the source code version in .ahk form and compile
them yourself.

my advice:
post this observance on the forum if you are still nervous so you can
get opinion of others.  try to find option in your antivirus to not do
"heuristic" or other "guessing" which might be causing it to false
alarm.

i apologize for any scare you might have -- try to see how painful
this is from our perspective when a virus scanning program goes around
telling people it has found viruses in our software.. the only thing i
can tell you is that these kinds of false alarms happen and you should
always use an antivirus program and always pay attention when it says
it finds something -- but never assume that just because it says it
found something that it really did."

lanux128:
here is a similar thread, AVG "detects" virus in AHK..

• DimSaver being flagged by AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

mouser:
maybe skrommel just needs to recompile his programs with a new version of ahk..

cranioscopical:
Using the latest version of AHK I still get the occasional alarm from AVG about
stuff of my own that I've compiled for personal use. One day's scan flags nothing,
then there's an AVG update and something gets flagged, then there's another
AVG update and the same thing (retrieved from quarantine) passes fine. 

It's annoying and has the effect of lowering the level of trust one places in anti-virus
software in general. That in itself is a dangerous trend.

f0dder:
I'm surprised I haven't gotten any false virus warnings about fSekrit - after all, it is compressed (using PECompact), it appends data to the end of the .exe files, and copies/deletes exes... but it does sound like AV programs are getting very bad at false positives lately :(

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