3 people I know have freaked out (at me mainly, because I steered them towards ezquake) recently because Avira reports it as a trojan.

Anything the devs can do to convince them it's a false positive? I tested this on my Win7 x64 install which is testing Avira and it does freak out and report ezquake-gl.exe as a trojan. I told them to try the Avast free version or the new MS Essentials, which is free if you have legit installs. 2 of these are nQuake installs, the other 2 people I forgot to ask.

Next time I boot into x64 I'll see if it thinks 2.0stable is a trojan also...

Even the nightly builds?

yep i brought up the topic in #ezquake some days ago. i was told to mail avira about it and i did that. no response yet..
maybe devs could look up the code thats relevant for this? cause avira antivir is a pretty popular antivirus tool and if avira-guys wont fix it on their side it will prevent many players from installing ezquake..

relevant virustotal.com report

02-october-2009 nightly build report:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/21b727929a028a1417f956ace446ecd10b8a63d15e0bf66b7aca71ebc61a02f2-1255017450

I generally take the jotti.org and virustotal.com reports with a grain of salt unless the scanners I've used and trusted over the years report stuff wrong. Some of the scanners they use seem to report suspicious files simply because the exe may be compressed with UPX. IIRC the developer of Totalcommander (formerly Wincommander) made a comment to this effect and has since quit compressing his app's exe.

what are antivirus apps good for anyway? are they only for the technically challenged? i haven't used one in years.

The "W32/IRCBot-based!Maximus" is due to libircclient library.
I've downloaded, installed and updated free version of avira antivirus and it doesn't report anything on the 2.0 official exe. So maybe they've already fixed it. Can someone confirm this?

Antivir went mental on my quake folder few days ago and it reported ezquake 2.0 as a trojan.