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by userbinator 1797 days ago
It's packed, which for some reason that tends to trigger a lot of AVs... although the fact that it's a packer from roughly 2 decades ago and one that any respectable AV should be able to easily unpack by now certainly doesn't inspire confidence.

Then again, AVs detecting things as innocent as freshly-compiled "Hello World" programs is not new, and certainly makes one wonder just what exactly they are trying to detect.

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I'm guessing that some virus signatures detect packers instead of unpacking the code and detecting malware code there.