msfs2020-go: some scanners from virustotal.com triggers false-postive

all important scanners are fine with the builds. (Microsoft, Avast, ClamAV, F-Secure, CrowdStrike Falcon)

but MaxSecure triggers a false-positive for Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen that i haven’t found a way to work around.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/946f9fa093369c29e3f8db51293b84bc7296ae4ed68112b2aebfa71ae85e349c/detection

previous discussion https://github.com/lian/msfs2020-go/issues/13

edit: Microsoft now too, although yesterday it liked the exact same zip file, now it says Trojan:Win32/Emali.A!cl

this is from the official golang website: https://golang.org/doc/faq#virus

Why does my virus-scanning software think my Go distribution or compiled binary is infected?

This is a common occurrence, especially on Windows machines, and is almost always a false positive. Commercial virus scanning programs are often confused by the structure of Go binaries, which they don’t see as often as those compiled from other languages.

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MaxSecure is not very good as Anti Virus, he detected a .txt file as a virus… Link of VT report.

Still detecting as a virus with 0.0.7, Edge Chromium/Defender