Are my AutoIt exes really infected?
If you have been using AutoIt for any length of time you will know that it is a great, and powerful scripting language. As with all powerful languages there comes a downside. Virus creation by those that are malicious.
AutoIt has no virii installed on your system, and if a script you have created has been marked as a virus, (and you're not malicious) then this is a false positive. They found a set of instructions in an AutoIt EXE out there somewhere, took the general signature of the file,
Hiding an AutoIt GUI with WinSetState Triggers a False Detection
I think I found at least one of the reasons for false detection by Windows Defender. A couple of years ago, I submitted my zPlayer.exe to Microsoft Defender ATP team for malware analysis and they removed the detection. I repeated this process several times whenever I made small changes in the code. After about 10 times of this process, the false detection stopped and I thought I was, sort of, given a freedom to make whatever