You could upload the file in question to VirusTotal -
https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload - and get a second opinion (and a 3:rd, 4:th,..27:th,...n:th - I don't know how many different scanners they have). That may give your IT people something to think about…
It is most probably a "false positive" because some trojan was developed with the same tools as that .exe (or the new "heuristics" approach taken by some scanners)...
You could upload the file in question to VirusTotal -
https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload - and get a second opinion (and a 3:rd, 4:th,..27:th,...n:th - I don't know how many different scanners they have). That may give your IT people something to think about…
It is most probably a "false positive" because some trojan was developed with the same tools as that .exe (or the new "heuristics" approach taken by some scanners)...