B&R Automation Studio - Antivirus Exclusions

During the build process, AS needs write access to the following directories, which should be excluded from virus scanners if there are significant performance impacts on build time:

  • Temporary directory of the Automation Studio project. This is by default within the project

(<project path>\temp)

but can also be placed outside the project by the user.

  • Temporary directory of the user who is logged on to the Windows system:

C:\Users\ <Username> \AppData\Roaming

  • Temporary directory of the user who is logged on to the Windows system:

C:\Users\ <Username> \AppData\Local\Temp

  • Windows temporary directory:

C:\Windows\Temp

When using fieldbus devices and DTM devices, there is write access to the following directories:

  • <Project path>

  • C:\ProgramData\BR\AS-Version

  • C:\ProgramData\SYCONnet

  • C:\ProgramData\IO-Link\Generic IO-Link Device DTM\IO-Link DDs

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