PolyWorks and anti virus software

[tobiwan]

Hello Everyone,

the McAfee anti virus ssoftware sometimes seems to (wrongly) recognize some temporary EZLayout (11.0.11) files as Trojans. Does anyone else have this effect and do you have a solution besides changing the anti virus softwarer?
Do you know other anti virus software that influence the work with PolyWorks?

Cheers, Tobias

[Software]

Hello,
Have you tried to exclude these files from the anti-virus scan process using files / directories exclusion (*.pwk; *.psl, c:\MyData, etc.)? Most anti-virus software support something like this.

[PW User]

First report I have of this...

We had an anti-virus that interfered in the installation of Polyworks... it would delete the polyworks.exe as soon as it got extracted from the .msi file and put it in a quarantine area...

But McAfee... It's well known and widely used antivirus... I would have thought the problem would have arisen to more than one site...

[prehistory]

I've used Norton Antivirus, Avast, and ZoneAlarm and never had an issue like that...  ZoneAlarm used to ask me to whitelist the various modules the first time I ran them, but otherwise no problems.