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November 24, 2021

Technical Tip: Paths to exclude Antivirus exceptions in 3rd Party Antivirus

  • November 24, 2021
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Description This article describes what paths to exclude in 3rd party antivirus.
Scope FortiEDR version 4 and above.
Solution

Paths to be excluded for MacOS Collector:


/Library/FortiEDR/*

/Applications/FortiEDR.app/*
/Library/FortiEDR/FortiEDRCollector
/Library/FortiEDR/FortiEDRCollectorTray
/Library/FortiEDR/FortiEDRConfig
/Library/FortiEDR/FortiEDRDriver

/Library/Extensions/FortiEDRDriver.kext


Paths to be excluded for Linux Collector:


/sbin/FortiEDRCollector/*

/opt/FortiEDRCollector/*

 

Paths to be excluded for Windows Collector:

 

%ProgramData%\FortiEDR\* 

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\* 

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\FortiEDRCollector.exe 

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\FortiEDRCollectorService.exe

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\FortiEDRAvScanner.exe 

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\FortiEDRInventoryScanner.exe 

%ProgramFiles%\Fortinet\FortiEDR\FortiEDRIotDiscovery.exe 

%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRAvDriver_*.sys 

%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRBaseDriver_*.sys 

%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRElamDriver_*.sys 

%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRIotDriver_*.sys

%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRWinDriver_*.sys
%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRFSDriver_*.sys
%windir%\System32\drivers\FortiEDRNetFilter_*.sys

 

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