QSPICE is a powerful tool no doubt about it, but honestly a lot of files are infected (mostly the compiled ones with Digital Mars compiler).
I dig deeper and I downloaded the same compiler version and boom!, almost all the exe files are infected, I don’t know if the development team aware of that ?! was it intentional ?
I saw the old threads, but to be honest something is odd with this Mars Compiler binaries. as I mentioned it needs really to be considered/checked, either compiling MDC from source code or move to another compiler.
I have a strong feeling that something is not right, too much red flags to be considered as a false positive.
You may want to scan your computer: if you have that many infected (and they turn out to be true, not false positives), it may indicate that they were infected by something else, in turn. Also, use more than one AV, if you can.
I use QSpice almost daily since it launched in 2013; and if it contains malware, I should have been in trouble a very long time ago. QSpice can compile and run DLLs, which is a common cause for false positives. I zipped the QSpice folder and uploaded it to VirusTotal. The so-called Detection for the Digital Mars C++ Compiler in the dm directory is only 1 to 3 out of about 70 security vendors.
VirusTotal is crowd-sourced malware scanning, whitelist a file requires submit a false-positive report directly to the specific antivirus company. For Qspice: Microsoft, AVG, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, McAfee etc… all reported Undetected in VirusTotal.
The QSpice forum is currently more of a community-based crowd-support platform.
For official support, refer to QSpice > Help > About QSpice for email contact.
I am not gonna tell where I work, but it’s allowed to be used at my work where it’s regirously tested before being allowed to be installed… So I doubt it has any infection. IDE Arduino is on the other hand not allowed at my work… Due to security issues. Hopes this helps you
