[CMake] CMake triggers Windows Defender

[Steve]

I posted the following on 6/18/18, but failed to set the reply-to to 
include the cmake list server.

Thanks for replying.

After I posted to this list I wondered if it was an issue with MinGW. I 
hadn't had any issues with MinGW before but compiled a quick 'hello 
world' to check. Worked fine, no Windows Defender trigger.

'gcc --version' reported 6.3.0, but I went ahead and ran 'mingw-get 
update' and 'mingw-get upgrade' anyway. After upgrade CMake no longer 
triggered Windows Defender during the compiler identification phase.

So, false positive caused by older version of MinGW.

I tried to find the actual version of gcc before and after, but 'gcc 
--version' reported 6.3.0 for both. I found a web site that listed 
MinGW-w64 gcc releases as v5.0.3 2017-11-04 and v5.0.4 2018-06-04. I 
last updated MinGW December 2017, so it's likely I was running v5.0.3 
and got lucky the latest update was 10 days before I started using CMake.

Thank you again Mr. King,

Steve

On 7/5/2018 4:01 PM, Isaiah Norton wrote:
> I don't know what the turn-around time is, but you and others might 
> consider submitting the exe as a false positive:
>
>     https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
>
> (If you are blocked by this issue, try adding an exclusion rule: 
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/4028485/windows-10-add-an-exclusion-to-windows-defender-antivirus)
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:27 PM Petak, Jim <jim.petak at keithley.com 
> <mailto:jim.petak at keithley.com>> wrote:
>
>     I’m wondering if anyone has followed up on the issue regarding
>     cmake triggering Windows Defender using the MinGW compiler.  It’s
>     a problem that I’m running into as well.
>
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