It does answer the question because if you read the original posters question.

I highlighted the relevant part where the check on VT gives a pretty strong indication that this is a false positive.

VirusTotal uses the windows version of avast (more packers supported) and there are currently 32 different scanners. So excluding avast the only other scanner that detected anything said it was suspicious, which would tend to indicate Heuristic detection that are prone to mis-detection.