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Working with Your Existing Antivirus

ThreatLocker plays nicely with existing antivirus software. We will neither conflict nor interfere with your AV software from running. However, you may need to create exceptions to prevent your antivirus software from blocking ThreatLocker. We recommend you exclude the following files from scanning:

Windows Antivirus software exclusions

  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\threatlockerservice.exe
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\threatlockertray.exe
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\ThreatLockerConsent.exe
  • C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ThreatLockerDriver.sys
  • C:\ProgramData\HealthTService\Healthservice.exe
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\ThreatLockerMinHook.x64.dll
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\ThreatLockerMinHook.x86.dll
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.0AMD64.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.0x86.db 
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.1AMD64.db 
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.1x86.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.2AMD64.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.2x86.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.3AMD64.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\6.3x86.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\10.0AMD64.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\10.0x86.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\apps.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\cert.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\dns.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\fileinfo.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\fileinstall.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\nac.db
  • C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ThreatLockerPersistentRules.db
  • C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ThreatLockerCoreFileRules.db
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\apphash.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\appfiles.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\applications.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\policies.txt
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\256Mappings.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\actionlogqueue.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\certcache.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\dnscache.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\GroupMembers.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\ringfencedPaths.json
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\storagepolicies.txt
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\logo.jpg
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\icon.ico
  • C:\Program Files\ThreatLocker\v5policydownloaded.txt
  • C:\ProgramData\HealthTService\healthmonitorlog.txt
  • c:\Program Files\threatlocker\log.txt 
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\fileinformationcache.json
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\authorizationhosts.txt
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\networkaccesspolicies.txt
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\tags.json
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\threatlockerdriver.inf
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\ThreatLockerService.exe.config
  • C:\program files\threatlocker\ThreatLockerDriver.sys
  • C:\Program Files\HealthTLService\Healthservice.exe
  • C:\temp\ThreatLockerStub.exe

MAC Antivirus software exclusions

  • /Applications/ThreatLocker.app
  • /Library/Application Support/ThreatLocker/ThreatLockerStorage.db
  • /Library/Application Support/ThreatLocker/ThreatLockerStorage.db-shm
  • /Library/Application Support/ThreatLocker/ThreatLockerStorage.db-wal  
  • /Library/LaunchAgents/com.threatlocker.app.UIAgent.plist
  • /Library/SystemExtensions/{randomGuid}/com.threatlocker.app.agent.systemextension 

For the GUID System Extension installation, this is created automatically during installation and will need to be entered with the correct GUID in place of the {randomGuid} text, including the curly braces.

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