Windows Security's Smart App Control is blocking a msys mingw file

[dariushmazlumi]

I got "Part of this app has been blocked: some features of "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\g++.exe" may not work because we can't confirm who published collect2.exe that the app tried to load" when trying to compile my code which during its compilation a file located at "C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\12.2.0\collect2.exe" was needed, hence leading to failure. I'm not 100% certain for this to be a false positive, but I doubt a file in a well-known open-source project, featured by Microsoft itself to be malware.

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