Avast! Free Antivirus false positive UnrealBuildTool.exe

Kaiwa_1 · June 27, 2014, 9:07am

Avast! Free Antivirus gave me a false positive on UnrealBuildTool.exe

Program version: 2014.9.0.2018
Virus definitions version: 140626-1
Number of definitions: 2,311,163

I installed the virusscanner after Unreal, I switched virus scanner basically. Threw AVG off and put this on. It updated to the version mentioned above and did a full computer scan. Giving these 2 threats. This also means that no exceptions were added to Avast. Clean, out of the box (updated to last version).

https://forums.unrealengine.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5918&d=1403796326

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · July 3, 2014, 6:41pm

Please add the unreal engine and unreal build tool .exe files to the list of exceptions, that should fix this.

anonymous_user_4bc79b2b · February 15, 2019, 1:37pm

Hello ,
Open the Avast user interface and go to Settings » General
Find the tab Exclusions and add specific programs(unrealbuildtool.exe) to the File paths tab
Added applications and/or paths will now be excluded from any Avast scanning.

Antivirus software is bigger virus.