Why my freezed app is detected as possible virus?

Question

I have packed my python application using the cx_freeze tool, this is my setup.py script:

import sys, os,imp
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable


build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"], "excludes": ["tkinter"],"include_files":["ui\images","imageformats","qt.conf","icon.ico"] }


base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
    base = "Win32GUI"

setup(  name = "MonPy-Qt",
        version = "1.5",
        description = "Conversor de Divisas",
        options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
        executables = [Executable("main.py", base=base,icon="icon.ico")],
        icon="icon.ico")

But when I try to run the generated .exe, avast detects as possible virus:

Trollvast

Someone have any idea to avoid this? thanks :)

Edit:

Translated message:

You are opening an application that may be potentially insecure. We recomend open this application on the virtual environment Sandbox in order to avoid any risk to the computer.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5497896/471800 might have clues. probably need to know more about your program. — Hamish, Aug 08 '12 at 08:16
It's possible someone used `cx_Freeze` to make a virus, and they blacklisted anything that looks similar. Can you translate the message? — Thomas K, Aug 08 '12 at 12:14
I've used `Py2Exe` a number of times and never had this type of problem. Things might have changed since then.... I was using `Py2Exe` early last year. — Florin Stingaciu, Aug 08 '12 at 18:50
I just tried with py2exe and still having the same alert with the *.exe — Rafael Carrillo, Aug 08 '12 at 20:01
It's interesting that it only says it's potentially insecure. Maybe it detects that it's going to run Python code, and decides that that's risky. Does running it in the sandbox work? — Thomas K, Aug 09 '12 at 16:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '12 at 09:20

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No Solution:

A recent update on Avast Antivirus specifies the reason to alert saying "Reputation: low".

Thanks to all :)

answered Aug 12 '12 at 09:20

Rafael Carrillo

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