The 5 positives shown by VirusTotal doesn’t mean the file has 5 infections(as mentioned in the link above by Zia) it is because diff AV providers have different nomenclatures and hence the 5 different names.

For one the “generic” and “pack” varieties are not real hits these are “Potentially Dangerous” stuff that AV doesn’t know about.

Further research on this lead me to the fact that “Being able to create an executable is considered as malicious by AV programs”. Now this is where false positives comes in. While a trojan creating an executable is certainly bad, a program for converting videos to executable isn’t doing anything bad. That is why its called “FALSE POSITIVE”

I have NOD32 (which is one of the best, if not the best) on my system so I check files with it (with all heuristics enabled) and then only write about it and share a Cool Software with you guys.

So my word after doing some research is that its a FALSE POSITIVE just because it creates an executable. Other thing that goes against it is the fact that it is portable and is not installed. So an application that is not installed trying to create an executable may seem like fishy to AV but then that’s why I am happy that I am a human and I can think which an AV cannot.

As a last note, its open source, so have a look at the code (if you are of the type) and let us know which line or function call is causing the malicious activity, or better still: fix it and re release it!

After a google search, I found this opinion:

http://makeinstantplayer.en.softonic.com/opinion/full-of-virus-and-trojans-be-aware-1458

I do not typically recommend codec packs. They can interfere with playback depending on your system configuration I’d recommend instead using g-spot to find out which codec a video file uses, then downloading the codec for that video file. The less codecs you have the better really. Plus you start to get into multiple versions of a codec and it becomes a system-wide nightmare.

My player of choice is ZoomPlayer. There is a free standard version that works great – there is also a professional version so you can play DVDs through it. Included in it is a codec downloading which will detect what codecs you have installed, and if you have any major ones missing it will automatically download and install it.

It also includes “SmartPlay” where you can tell it which codec to use for an audio or video type. It’s really saved my butt in a few situations.