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Would love to try this out but downloading it tripped my antivirus software with detections for the Phonzy.B!ml Trojan which is a real nasty piece of malware that can record keystrokes, steal banking information, allow remote access, steal computer configuration information etc. all without user interaction.  Not sure what part of this download is tripping that detection, but I am not comfortable trusting this download because of this.  

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This is a false positive as there aren't any viruses in the download, which is a known issue with Ren'py games. Here's one example from the official forums, and someone else on itch.io with the same problem on a different game. Unfortunately, it's been inconsistent in when it gets flagged, so it's been hard to troubleshoot, but we're looking into what we can do about it. The uploads on itch are the same as the ones on Steam, which passed Steam's internal checks for viruses as well.

What version of the game was it, and what antivirus software do you use?

We got some advice about changing the icon used by the .exe, so there's a new version that's the same as the previous one except now it uses the default Ren'py icon.

Hopefully that helps and thanks for letting us know this happened.

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for the info!  I will try again later and see if it helps.  I was using the Windows version and it was caught by Windows Defender