stan rydzewski

Greetings. I briefly used Delphi at a job I had a few years ago. Well just this week I had a desire to create some simple windows forms programs for personal use. Seeking to avoid the overhead of .net, I thought of Delphi. I downloaded the community edition and created a quick 'hello world' sort of program as a proof of concept. I made an exe of it which seems to run fine from explorer. I went to send it to myself via gmail to see if I could run it on a machine that didn't have delphi installed. gmail immediately flagged it as a virus! Suspecting gmail being at fault here, I uploaded the exe to virustotal and some of the scanners they use also thought it was suspicious. Here's the analysis https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2de98571dce1bb9627b2e754aca05d57961e89a93f0924f76bd51622a891d362/detection Now, do I think there is a virus? No. Avast and windows both think my machine is clean and I've added nothing to delphi itself. I literally just downloaded it from embarcadero and made this file with it. So I guess my question is more, can I control the make process in such as way as to remove the threatening behavior, which seems to involved stopping a windows process. (Which sounds dodgy, I suppose, but maybe it's something Delphi does for debugging?) You can read about why it is being flagged on the evaluation linked to above.) I'd love to hear any thoughts on this. Thanks for reading.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm 99% sure all is well but I think to be totally sure I'll copy the source files to a different machine and see if the same thing happens from there.