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Working with Your Existing Antivirus

Updated January 12, 2023

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

  • 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