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Why is it that sometimes my program is flagged as a virus for some anti-virus software, when it's not?

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Are you talking about false positives?

Anton Gogolev
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May be your program contains some code snippets which are considered as VIRUS code by anti-virus programs.

Nirmal Singh Raja Reegan
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Antivirus protection systems often use heuristic algorithms that may give false postivies sometimes. Maybe your program has a certain set of suspicious function calls, specific low-level instructions or whatnot. Networking is likely to cause an antivirus alarm as well :)

Roman D