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regarding the virus reports that Laird mentioned, those are false positives, which is reasonable since only 2 or 3 antiviruses in 67 were able to detect.

I hope you did not lost interest in this project. I would be grateful if administrators could check this and host my app in the preiencequest.net, to avoid a possible suspect of my software being compromised in future. 

Here are my conclusions:

 
Considering Laird's suggestion of my system being compromised I made a clean installation of win7 and Visual Studio (VS) in a virtual machine, I copy pasted the code and compiled -> same virus reports in virustotal
Then I made the same in my computer at the lab -> same viruses report
I also compiled one of the examples provided with VS (a simple “hello world” program) -> now the viruses reports were different (2 detections)
I also tried other compiler rather than VS -> different viruses report
I even used an online compiler(http://www.onlinecompiler.net/) with a simple “hello world” program -> now even more viruses were detected (you can try this for yourself)
Finally, I made the latter step in the computer of a colleague with ubuntu at the lab -> same reports
 
In fact, these false positives are very common, see for instance https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums...diogeneral
 
In these cases, developers should contact the antivirus companies asking to add the apps to their white-list. But I would like to avoid such a trouble.
 
So, I followed some tips online to void false positives, basically I changed some compilation settings. The virus reports also changed with these settings, but finally I found some settings which give no virus detection in virus total. The most difficult false positive to avoid comes from qihoo-360 which is known to have a very large false positive rate.

Here is the app: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cmB5_S...VCLBZVStIi
Here are the virustotal scans:
The exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bb49.../detection
And the zip: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1f11.../detection 

it is compatible with native windows computers (tested on windows 7 and 10), and also inside virtual machines (tested in virtualbox with win7 32-bit). If your system is 32-bit instead of 64-bit you need to install first the redistributable packages for Visual Studio (also provided)

if you have mac or linux, you can install VirtualBox (google it), and then you run the free version windows 7 32bit (90 days trial) (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/mi...tools/vms/). In this way you will be able to participate in the experiment.

[Laird]

Thank you for going to that effort to determine what the problem was and to find a way to eliminate the false positives, and sorry to put you through it. I can confirm that the program is now virus-free as reported by VirusTotal.

I think if we were to host files on Psience Quest we would need to first audit the code and then compile it for ourselves - that would provide the best guarantee against suspicions.

Thank you for going to that effort to determine what the problem was and to find a way to eliminate the false positives, and sorry to put you through it. I can confirm that the program is now virus-free as reported by VirusTotal.

I think if we were to host files on Psience Quest we would need to first audit the code and then compile it for ourselves - that would provide the best guarantee against suspicions.

that would be nice, I can give the code, it is opensource. But if you do not want to go through such trouble now, probably we can discuss this in future, after the project being officially launched.