I have tried PyInstaller, py2exe and cx_Freeze to create a windows executable from a Python script. I then tried to check the produced executable for viruses using VirusTotal. It gave the following results:
PyInstaller: 18 / 69 detected viruses
py2exe: 4 / 68 detected viruses
cx_Freeze: 1 / 68 detected viruses
It seems that cx_Freeze is the most safe, but PyInstaller is disastrous.
I have searched on the internet and they say that they are all false positives, but it is not easy to convince a client that 18 antiviruses gave false positive.
My question is: Why are executable created from python scripts detected as viruses? What is the technical issue behind this?
Thank you.
