I downloaded the CLI file from the github website and ran the CLI .exe file for Windows through both My Windows Defender and VirusTotal(Defender didn’t have any flags, but virustotal did). It shown two flags. It got flagged by both “MaxSecure” and the other flag comes from “VBA32”. I’m asking if it’s a false positive or not. I heard that less than 5 flags are a false positive, but I wanted to make sure and ask anyone who might be able to help me resolve the issue. I hope the image shows up here. I just made the acc here today to make a report about the issue.
If you got Go installed, you can also download the code and compile it yourself 
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Release Installer for the Latest Exercism Windows CLI · exercism/windows-installer · GitHub
I got it from here. I’m guessing it’s more or less the same place? I got the .exe version.
NVM just saw it. Thank you for clarifying.
That installer is fine, too.
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Cool. Thank you.
That installer was written in Delphi by a long-term contributor to Exercism. Delphi in recent years has been used for malware because it’s easy to distribute without additional dependencies and compiles to machine code so it’s harder to analyze. So the antivirus scan might be flagging it as suspected malware (which isn’t the same as confirmed malware) because of that and telling you to tread carefully.
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