[quick preamble]:
the following post will highlight what is most likely a false positive.
i've also scanned every file locally with Windows Defender, Hitman Pro, and Malware Bytes. they found nothing.
[here goes anyway, just in case]:
i downloaded the .zip hosted on MEGA and cut out visual- and audio files (
since they are essentially always benign), until i got the total file size below 500MB (
VirusTotal's upper limit), then rezipped the game (
using store, no compression) and uploaded it for a full engine scan.
2/60 engines returned "
Trojan.Win32.Remcos.ksibzy". one of the engines that did uses an AI solution, and so could be inaccurate on that basis alone. i didn't recognize the other.
punching "Remcos" into a search engine suggests it's a RAT (
Remote Access Trojan).
i'm usually not spooked when VirusTotal returns 1-2 warnings, as it's _very_ often just a false positive, but whatever the engines "find" is usually something generic/vague (
often with "generic" and/or "ml" literally present in the name of what was "found"), yet this time a specific RAT is mentioned by name, which is something i haven't seen before.
could someone with more computer know-how let me know if i'm just being paranoid? 