Getting back to Potplayer, I have not read back through this thread, and I stopped using the program some time ago (although older versions may still be installed on a couple rigs), because I recall reading some disturbing reports about 'phone home' tattletale behavior that could not be thwarted without crippling the program. That exception above applies less in the case of something like a video player, which is not doing anything like password recovery. Programs that are good and do important or unique things, but which will always get flagged, due to their nature.

Sometimes even multiple hits from the longtime major players does not really tell the tale, either: see many years of valid complaints from NirSoft and certain others. Some of those AV scanners are major players, but some others are No Account No Names that I wouldn't put any value on. It is a much better practice to use VirusTotal, which is free, and then read the multi-AV-scanners report with care and some understanding.

As a general principle, single AV scanner results don't really cut it: too many ways it can toss out a false positive, as from the use of certain software tools in the coding development, or certain essential methods by which the program does its thing.

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