[CMake] CMake triggers Windows Defender

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Jun 18 09:02:07 EDT 2018


On 06/14/2018 04:43 PM, Steve wrote:
> When I run '/cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..'
> Windows Defender triggers and reports: Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.C!cl on file:
> D:\DDS-master\AMM_Modules\build\CMakeFiles\3.11.3\CompilerIdC\a.exe

Strange.  That `a.exe` is an executable created by the MinGW compiler
by compiling a tiny source file CMake uses to identify the compiler.
CMake doesn't even try to run the executable.  It only needs to read
some strings out of it.

This must be triggering a false positive somehow.

-Brad


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