Alpaca Install EXE detected as a trojan

[Dav-Sc]

Windows defender points out that the one click install contains "win32/Wacatac.B!ml"

[ViperX7]

I am looking into potential solutions

The binary is completly safe
this is probabily just a false positive due to packaging stuff in layers

[Dav-Sc]

I did more research and when Python is compiled into a exe, it'll give a false positive especially for things related to machine learning.

[espressoelf]

If in doubt, check VirusTotal. It offers a lot of information about the file.

In this case, it's just generally suspicious. Which isn't exactly wrong, since you usually install Python manually and so on. But it's a false positive.