I always upload my binaries to VirusTotal and always have. Like what? Writing assembly? Using the RDTSC instruction? Having a run-length decoder to make lookup tables smaller? I must be a stone cold black hat hacker. Anyone who monitors the behavior of these programs can see they're fully transparent, don't interact with the system weirdly, and they don't have any telemetry. The truth is some virus scanner person wrote an overly broad regex somewhere that's raising false positives due to a completely random occurrence. It might not happen as much to people who use MSVC since it always generates binaries the exact same way. But does that mean we should accept an MSVC monopoly? Because MSVC is the kind of compiler that's been known to insert telemetry into your programs when it wraps main(). Why don't virus scanners complain about that? All I'm trying to do is innovate in this space and create a better alternative. There shouldn't be these kinds of roadblocks to competition. In fact APE doesn't even compete. It's designed to be a complementary format that bridges gaps between communities and helps reduce pain for developers.