Trojan Virus Warning while staring Coatl64.exe

[DLH067U]

Hi,

occured a problem while starting GSX. My AV reports a potential Trojan Virus infection caused by COATL64_boot.exe.
See report below.

ESETs delete COATL64.exe. Any ideas if the file has been infected on FSDT servers or false alert?

[Seth2023]

Same here with Eset Antivirus:


couatl64\Couatl64_MSFS2024.exe; a variant of Win64/Packed.Enigma_AGen.BD trojan
couatl64\couatl64_msfs.exe ;a variant of Win64/Packed.Enigma_AGen.BD trojan

Never had any warning before. This started from today, Eset keeps blocking all exe files of GSX even on update installation.

[Nasder]

Most likely a false alert. Probably an ESET thing, happened to me to.

I just excluded the folder and temporarily paused the antivirus while updating.

[virtuali]

It's surely a false positive and it's clearly an antivirus bug because, even if we *have* updated the Couatl64_MSFS2024.exe (we keep updating it each time a new Alpha build comes out), the couatl64_msfs.exe hasn't been updated since September 20th, and you can check this by looking at the timestamp of the Digital Signature tab in the file Properties.

[DLH067U]

Okay. I have presumed it. Will exclude the folder as said in one of the previous posts.

[Brittanix]

Im getting the same. Ive excluded folders but it's not helping.
In addition im getting a side-by-side error and have no idea how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated.

[Brittanix]

Ok, I reinstalled GSX and noticed that I excluded the couatl.exe files only instead of the folder.
Ive now excluded the complete FSDT folder in ESET and seems to work fine now.

[virtuali]

Ive now excluded the complete FSDT folder in ESET and seems to work fine now.

That's what the manual suggests to do in the Troubleshooting section: exclude the whole Addon Manager folder.