Hi, AVAST detecting viruses and deleting aw-qt.exe file
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c4c73c51018e7b91147f105af2d8278216a29cd086269c6376dc148a30cb9f76
I can confirm. It did not happen with previous installations.
It used to happen with previous versions too, but eventually Avast stopped reporting it as a false positive.
Anti-virus false positives are being tracked and reported to vendors here: Submit false positives to antivirus vendors · Issue #181 · ActivityWatch/activitywatch · GitHub
The long-term solution for this is to codesign releases, which should drastically reduce false positives.