Hi @gratefullyscrutinise thanks for the report and your concern -
There is no known maleware packaged with the software. It is bundled using pyinstaller on github with docker and pushed to itch. All of the code is opensource and available for review here - you’re free to install from source instead if you are able.
I haven’t heard of any recent info of anti-virus or maleware until your report. However in the past I believe Avast was causing false positives.
You should be safe, however I’d like to look into this further and contact Kaspersky if need be. What is the exact error you’re getting? Would you mind posting a screenshot here?