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by MereInterest 1902 days ago
I've had similar false positives from McAfee when first installing pyinstaller, but not on the using of executables generated by pyinstaller. I hadn't known that pyinstaller was used by malware, and had assumed it was because the bundled interpreter could potentially make any system call, thus making it flag on lots of heuristics.
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> assumed it was because the bundled interpreter could potentially make any system call, thus making it flag on lots of heuristics

You seriously overestimate AV “heuristics”.