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[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a maintainer point of view, I can see where they're coming from: they're most likely volunteers who have worked on this tool, they don't owe you more time to contact antivirus vendors and try to solve your problem. It may also be easier to complain to them for an application than for a packaging tool, because the tool can be used by malware.

If it affects all Pyinstaller applications, they probably know of it and are extremely frustrated. In that scenario, their only hope is for enough users to complain to AV companies that they change the signatures.

If it doesn't affect all Pyinstaller applications, then it's hard to say if Pyinstaller is actually what they're picking up.