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Getting something attached to a compiled program without knowledge is possible but very unlikely.

Sites like virustotal should be used with some discernment. If 1 out of 70+ scanners indicates a problem, the likelihood of a false positive is high.

It's likely part of renpy itself being claimed. Nearly all programs (open source has it worse) have some rate of false detection, which is solved in various ways, like lodging an issue with the companies (https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/5314) . Renpy has had false positives a few times. Around 2021, the 32-bit exe was flagged because the mingw linux-to-windows compiler used had the style of calling in it's compiled output generally flagged by some scanners (made worse by a bug in the hash calculation for the compiled file renpy used).

Indeed, if you go to Renpy's download site: ( https://www.renpy.org/latest.html ) , download the latest .exe version, and immediately check that, it comes up with the exact detection you're seeing.

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I still have in my mind the situation with CurseForge, when there attackers gained access to the accounts of mod developers for Minecraft and uploaded "new mods versions" with a virus stuffed in it.

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Perhaps.
I don't want to get too deep into a discussion on someone's game forum, heh. Ultimately, make your own call for what makes you feel comfortable.

For fun, I tested a few things on virus total in the last few minutes. The following are detected as viruses right now:

  • VLC media player (64bit) Windows- vlc-3.0.20-win64.exe
  • Firefox browser 64-bit Windows installer - Firefox Installer.exe
  • Drobbox 64-bit Windows desktop installer - DropboxInstaller.exe
  • 7zip Windows 64-bit beta version installer - 7z2404-x64.exe
  • Winrar 32-bit Windows installer - winrar-x32-700.exe
  • GoG Galaxy installer for 64-bit Windows - GOG_Galaxy_2.0.exe
  • Notepad++ 32-bit installer - npp.8.6.5.Installer.exe

I thank you for your research on the matter! i may be the coder for this project, but as anyone who's seen my code would know, its far from my specialty. I thank you for your time and effort on this, its super helpful!