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This happens occasionally for new versions of 7-zip and more often for niche open source tools which offer installers or executables for windows. You should have a bad taste for antivirus. It's never really worked.

> It looks like a false positive for me, but still it leaves a very bad taste.

I agree, this definitely doesn't look good. If I were you I'd uninstall this obviously broken antivirus software.

Why does it matter? Antivirus software vendors effectively engage in code signing certificates protection racket.

I haven't run resident virus scanning for at least a decade or more, including Windows Defender on my Windows machine, and I haven't had a single meaningful issue during that time.

(And I know this with high confidence because I do schedule weekly full disk scans on my computers and NAS and they haven't ever found a damn thing that wasn't a false positive or a fake-positive.)