Viruses and false positives

Some virus scanners like Symantec are often reporting a virus in Peace. These false positives are due to the nature of the programming language I use: AutoIt with which I'm able to create in a short time an userfriendly user interface.

I'll frequently whitelist new versions of Peace at Symantec and other vendors that has a scanner which reports a virus. You can scan Peace.exe by yourself by using, for instance, Virus Total (https://www.virustotal.com/). You'll notice that Peace is virusfree because only a few scanners report a virus (which is common for most software).

In principle it's possible to create a virus with AutoIt as with all programming languages. With AutoIt it's easy to automate Windows tasks. Other software can be controlled and therefore automated quite easily. Due to this fact virus scanners can report a virus. Also AutoIt is an interpreter language. An executable has an embedded virtual machine which might be used to determine this as a virus. In other words, all programs made with AutoIt are seen as virusses.

My effort is making a free userfriendly user interface for Equalizer APO, not making a virus. If you're not sure of this, I can only recommend that you don't use Peace.

For more information: https://sourceforge.net/p/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/discussion/viruses/