Anti-Virus Recommendations for SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS products are developed to work with all anti-virus applications, but it is not feasible for their development team to validate all the different anti-virus and security softwares. In general, these exceptions are not required. However, in cases where installation errors or performance issues are caused by the anti-virus system, these are the specific processes and folders that should be excluded by the anti-virus.

For additional information and the latest recommendations from SOLIDWORKS, review updated notes on their system requirements page here:

https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements

General Recommendations

• Use a trusted antivirus product.
• Keep your antivirus product updated to the latest version.
• Stay updated with the latest antivirus definition/signature file (This defines the known current vulnerabilities and exemptions).
• To ensure optimum performance, it is not recommended to install antivirus software on the SOLIDWORKS PDM vault server.
• Consider creating exemptions for SOLIDWORKS file types and folder locations to improve SOLIDWORKS file based runtime performance such as File Open/Save/Save As and PDM Vault Checkin/Checkout.
• If you encounter install, runtime errors, or warnings from your antivirus product, first check the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base for known issues, then contact your SOLIDWORKS reseller.

SOLIDWORKS Exclusions

• Sldworks.exe
• sldworks_fs.exe
• swShellFileLauncher.exe
• Swboengine.exe (Task scheduler background process)
• SolidWorksLicTemp.0001
• SolidWorksLicTemp.0002
• SolidWorksLicTemp.0003 - depends on the number of instances of SolidWorks running
• Swbgproc.exe (process which silently updates HLR drawing views to HQ from draft)

PDM Exclusions

The main SOLIDWORKS PDM services (processes) on the server side are:

• ArchiveServerService.exe
• ConisioDbServer.exe
• ConisioWebServer.exe

The PDM client processes are:

• ViewServer.exe
• EdmServer.exe
• ConisioAdmin.exe
• FileViewer.exe
• Search.exe
• Report.exe
• Inbox.exe

Notes

• There maybe other processes that run based on specific add-ins being used on the client machine. It is recommended to work with your IT to identify any that maybe monitored and blocked to add additional exclusions.
• Information gathered from SOLIDWORKS Knowledge base articles: S-052103, S-017774, S-015681, S-050192.