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I agree it is an annoying situation and understand your frustration, however this jam simply can't t accept entries which are actively identified as a virus by common anti-virus programs. 

If you still wish to use PureBasic for your project, there do appear to be some things you can do to help your executable pass common virus scans.  The PureBasic forums are full of posts with developers talking about things they have done to solve this problem.   Try searching there for a solution.  Here's one example:

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=72466

And here's a web site that can help you check if your exe file will get flagged by common anti-virus software.

https://www.virustotal.com

There are many, many anti-virus programs so hitting a few false positives probably is unavoidable, but if you could get the exe to pass the most common ones (McCafee, MS Defender, BitDefender, AVast, Kaspersky, Norton, Trend Micro, etc) it'd be acceptable for this jam.

is there a tool which makes the exe secure for the common virus-scanner?

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It appears developers have used different methods to get around this problem.  You will have to do some research to find a solution that works for your setup.

The forum post I gave a link to includes some advice.  Some one said to avoid using the statement:

UsePNGImageDecoder()

in your code.

Someone else posted what looks like PureBasic code for a program that modifies an executables size and crc checksum to help it pass common virus scans.

I don’t use PureBasic so I can only be of limited help here but if you read the forum thread I posted and search the PureBasic forums for other threads on this topic you may find a solution that works for you.