Exceptions for antivirus

Excluding SCIA Engineer from your antivirus software increases the performance and decreases the risk for corrupted data, files and errors due to the antivirus blocking the normal functioning of the software.

This is the list of files & folders to exclude in the Antivirus software:

(1) Folders (and all it's subfolders):

• C:\Users\<login name>\ESAXX.X (XX.X = the version of SCIA Engineer: for example ESA21.1 for SCIA 21.1)
• C:\Users\<login name>\Documents\ESAXX.X (XX.X = the version of SCIA Engineer: for example ESA21.1 for SCIA 21.1)

• C:\Users\<login name>\AppData\Local\SCIA

(2) the most important (and most frequently used) executables are:

• Esa.exe
• EsaEngineeringReport.exe
• EsaStartupScreen.exe
• Solver.exe
• Solver64.exe
• DesignForms_CalcExe.exe
• Lockman.exe

These executables reside in the installation folder of SCIA Engineer (with XX.X = the version of SCIA Engineer: for example Engineer21.1 for SCIA 21.1):

• SCIA 32 bit version: C:\Program Files (x86)\SCIA\EngineerXX.X
• SCIA 64 bit version: C:\Program Files\SCIA\EngineerXX.X

Remark: some customers exclude the complete installation folder of SCIA Engineer, because testing shows that this has a positive influence on the performance of the software.