Do these false positives also occur
with other compilers?
Yes, this is has been a common problem in the past for AutoIt as addressed in this forum post “Are my AutoIt EXEs really infected?”. In most cases including AutoIt it stems from poor heuristic practices. Since AutoIt uses the free and open UPX compressor, it is often mistaken for malicious code that also uses UPX.
The best (and possibly only) thing you can do is report these mistakes, so they can refine their heuristics or at least white list your app.
Below is a list of contact information for some popular anti-virus companies. They all claim to appreciate submissions as it helps them make their product better.
- AntiVir – Contact
- A2 (A-Squared) – Contact (email address)
- Avast! – Contact
- AVG – Contact
- BitDefender – Contact
- BullGuard – Contact
- CA Anti-Virus – Contact
- ClamAV – Contact
- ClamWin – Contact
- Comodo – Contact
- ESET’s Nod32 – Contact
- eSafe – Contact (login required)
- Fortinet – Contact
- F-PROT – Contact
- F-Secure – Contact
- G-Data – Contact
- Kaspersky – Contact
- McAfee – Contact (email address)
- Norman – Contact (email address)
- Panda Anti-Virus – Contact
- Sophos – Contact
- Symantec (Norton) – Contact
- Vipre – Contact
- Windows Live OneCare – Contact
- ZoneLabs – Contact
Turns out there is a great list of AV software on wikipedia, called ‘List of antivirus software’. It is more complete than my list above.
A member of the Autoit Forums made a great script to e-mail a false positive to a huge list of AV vendors to automate this process a bit.