This has been touched upon before - google search digital signatures on windows and compiling from Visual Studio, as well as packers Long story short is that apps compiled via Visual Studio that are NOT signed and can trigger false positives.  I also "packed" the program - so all runtimes and dlls are "packed" into a single exe file for easier download, running, and portability.  Packers can ALSO trigger false positives.  I'm pro open-source, but part of that reason to be pro open source  i