v.1 is dead, long live v.2! I beg to disagree. V2 is flagged with so many false positives that it is basically dead already. As we are speaking, the latest build is flagged by 14/69 vendors! I couldn't even download the installer file at first because Firefox blocked the download for it being suspi...

I have spent a lot of effort trying to report false positives in previous versions, including version 2.0.11 and it seems that every new version gets flagged with by more vendors. AutoHotkey 2.0.12 has been flagged by 16/70 vendors on VirusTotal! It seems kind of pointless to develop software that b...

Status update for version 2.0.11. These vendors have cleared the flags: Bkav Pro Fortinet Gridinsoft (no cloud) Webroot has replied but refused to clear the flag. I asked for the reason and got a super vague reply about them having seen AutoHotkey being used maliciously. I have exchanged a couple of...

I think that just reporting false positives and bringing issues up with VirusTotal is not enough. This happens silently and nobody is aware of the challenges a typical project might have dealing with false positives. If the process of reporting and resolving issues is hard and takes a long time, sma...

Version 2.0.11 got released and currently it is flagged by 8 vendors:

Antiy-AVL
Bkav Pro
Fortinet
Gridinsoft (no cloud)
Rising
SecureAge
SentinelOne (Static ML)
Webroot

Today I contacted each company to report the file as a false positive for investigation.

Around two months ago, I started trying to report false positives. 11 vendors have flagged version 2.0.10. After a while, these vendors have cleared the malicious flag: - McAfee-GW-Edition - Cynet - SecureAge - Bkav Pro - Fortinet - CrowdStrike Falcon These vendors seemingly ignore the requests even...

I have been trying to help out with reporting false positives. However, after seeing that half of the companies either do not provide a clear way to report these issues or they do not respond at all. VirusTotal and their contributing AV vendors simply do not care about small developers or open-sourc...