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Wow thank you so much for taking the time to look into this and address my concerns! I've gone ahead and installed the software safely on my machine!!! Thank you!!

ooooo this is fascinating! I had not even considered that a "deep learning" approach was being used in detection nor how much it departs from the "conventional" approach. It makes sense to want to be able to catch a threat before it is known, but on the other hand you get this which I pulled from that support doc you linked: "However, due to the algorithmic nature of machine learning, it's not possible to identify why a false positive may have occurred."

Which seems important to our discussion here. There is a clear tradeoff between security (or sense of security) and control or even knowing. I am very interested to learn more!

Hi! Yes I agree that the Lite shouldn't have even more flags. I scanned it as a comparison and assumed it would have less or nothing. But to your original point, could all be false positives. Truth be told, I am using a work laptop, hoping to mess around on my down time, so I'm playing it safe not to hose up my machine! But I have a Mac laptop and over the weekend I want to get this going on that machine. Again thank you for the time and support!

edit: re-read your reply and yes I see now that places like Kaspersky and McAfee and many others all passed it as safe. So that is significant.

Hi Robert!

Ok thanks for your continued support on this.

I downloaded the full windows zip again, same threat got flagged, which makes sense, so I decided to run the file itself through VirusTotal. I think these links are static, so here are the reports for the full windows zip, the lite windows zip, and the mac:

Full: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef2903e12683197ef066b2316965e9e7aa9e51392597a47a46cfd5278ad3edc9/detection

Lite: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3c21d7d39daf4bbea85bd25831af6c7c4c399d8a5ed6c398c2fbbe984d330cd7

Mac Full: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e3326d1354f449ce7069fe616e2d6d552d798a922b246fea9b2e3f424d0af36f

(LMK if those links don't work or if I inserted them incorrectly)

You are the developed, I do trust you. I merely want to share my findings so you can either dispel or investigate if needed. Based on the reports, and maybe they are false positives, but I feel best with the Mac install (which had no flags).

I am committed to using this software! I hope I can help in some way, not hinder, bother, or annoy.

Best

Hi Robert-

Thank you so much for replying! Of course I never thought a virus or similar could be placed intentionally. I am inclined to trust the software and the page, plus running the download URL through VirusTotal flagged nothing but safe verifications from dozens of trusted sites. I was trying to play it safe, and I feel better having your response. I've been itching to use the software! I will try again.

Thank you!

Hey! Sorry to ask a noob question. I looked around here but didn't see this mentioned. I am running Windows 11. I just downloaded the PC zip from the site and Windows Security flagged this as a threat: PUA:Win32/Vigua.A

Doing a search online didn't turn up much other than saying this could be a threat.

Can anyone tell me what's up? Is this a virus in the download? Should I remove it? Is this a part of the software and therefore safe or benign?

Thank you!