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Per this reddit thread, it appears that cpuid.com is redirecting CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads to a third party URL and antivirus identifies it as a virus.
Those apps need to hook into low-level processes, so the antivirus app might see a false positive. On the other hand, that would be a great attack vector, so I would think caution would be warranted.