u/theSPLA5H

What is an acceptable number of positive flags on VirusTotal?

I was looking at installing Synergy's "SC2CampaignLauncher.exe" to play custom campaigns in Starcraft 2. Synergy seems like a legit modder making great content, but when I click to install the file, I get a Windows Defender SmartScreen prompt "preventing an unrecognized app from running," so I decided to run the file through VirusTotal.

I got a score of 3/69 with positive flags from Arctic Wolf, Bkav Pro, and SecureAge. My question is: how many positive flags would be considered acceptable on VirusTotal to the point where I can feel confident on running an application?

For reference, here is the link.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f6d4f36cdaea7e002e927d11be0a729baff8e7d4ab1a264f6ac1fcb6733677e9

Thank you to anyone and everyone who may give this a look and a moment of their time.

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u/theSPLA5H — 5 hours ago