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It would seem like Avira Antivirus is detecting "launcher-full" as infected with "EXP/JAVA.Adwind.BM.Gen":

Type: File
Source: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spine\launcher\launcher-full
Status: Infected
Quarantine object: 7cf43d1e.qua
Restored: NO
Uploaded to Avira: NO
Operating system: Windows XP/VISTA Workstation/Windows 7
Search engine: 8.03.40.172
Virus definition file: 8.12.118.218
Detection: EXP/JAVA.Adwind.BM.Gen
Date/Time: 18/09/2016, 0:02

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4911117f16717580f5d62653dae16cff9417d1e29ad2802bd9fcca4666eab695/analysis/1474150048/

Also, "launcher-full.jar" is being detected as being infected with some kind of trojan on VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f0dd1b7be542da82345e253c50267c0f0e45289de3e5c360a618d22bdf814986/analysis/1452492963/

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6 days later

Sigh, this has happened before. It's a false positive. We are going to write to the Avira folks again.

Don't worry, there is definitely no virus in Spine. These anti virus programs make some guesses and sometimes get it wrong.