A virus has been detected in mingw installer. Mainly in Virobot and TheHacker antivirus scanners.
I have searched on google as to why this is happening. I have found this. http://mingw-users.1079350.n2.nabble.com/Explanation-of-false-positives-for-viruses-in-mingw-get-setup-exe-td7582442.html
It seems that i'm not convinced with the answers to the topic. Because the third poster's opinion conflicts with the second poster. Should i click it? My only purpose is to run gcc on windows natively. Explanations are appreciated as to why or why not i should click this installer.
I've seen this report in the past -- I'm fairly certain it is a false positive, but ultimately, it's your choice whether to run it or not. If you choose "not", then your alternative is a manual download and installation of a significant collection of separate packages; my own preference would be to run mingw-get-setup.exe, or at least to manually download and install the mingw-get package, and run mingw-get.exe to complete the installation.
To those who say I should be digitally signing code for which I receive no remuneration whatsoever, I have only one answer: digital signing is expensive; fund the effort, on my behalf, and I may consider it.