{"id":296032,"date":"2018-08-09T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=296032"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:58:24","slug":"anti-virus-false-positive-alerts-for-desktop-10-6","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/trust-arcgis\/administration\/anti-virus-false-positive-alerts-for-desktop-10-6","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Virus False Positive Alerts for Desktop 10.6"},"author":3911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37501],"tags":[24081,203742],"industry":[],"product":[763582],"class_list":["post-296032","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-ssamymlgp","tag-false-positive","product-trust-arcgis"],"acf":{"short_description":"McAfee, Cylance, &amp; TrendMicro Anti-Virus products are providing false positive alerts for ArcGIS Desktop 10.6","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The file regESRIRegASM.dll is being incorrectly being flagged as being infected by a small number of Anti-virus products for ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.\u00a0 We have already confirmed this as a false positive with the Anti-virus vendors and are waiting for them to update their signature lists.\u00a0 The file is found in:\u00a0C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Common Files\\ArcGIS\\bin<\/p>\n<p>Most AV scanners do not flag the file as suspicious, which can be confirmed on the VirusTotal website here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/#\/file\/47c048741eeb21049d82ac0ae73533e1803f14678515e72a8531068f172eff02\/detection\">https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/#\/file\/47c048741eeb21049d82ac0ae73533e1803f14678515e72a8531068f172eff02\/detection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes (Updated 8\/10\/18):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This issue represents a false positive. 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