Hm, the most recent version of Autohotkey is nearly a year old, so that's had enough time to earn some trust, and avoid being blocked by the regular AV packages.
I haven't used McAfee AV for about 10 years, the first thing to remove from a new computer when installed in fact, as it's not worth the money they ask for it, any free offering used to be better and lower on system resources, and currently MS Defender is leading the free offerings.
Any half decent AV package has options to exclude folders from (excessive) scanning, and that's where your AHK dev folders should be added (in fact, any development folder should be added there, to avoid all files being scanned at every compilation), so you can actually work on your software, without being bothered by unneeded and overzealous AV actions.
Unfortunately we can't access the internet and not have AV on our computers, though you can switch away from Windows, but that can be hard, I know. Most part of my development-life is on Windows, though for some parts I've switched to building on WSL2, as that's up to 5 times faster, compared to working directly in Windows. But I'm not producing Windows executables there, only IoT related stuff to be installed on microcontrollers
