[NOTICE] ESET antivirus update causing issues with the Particle CLI & node.js

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Hi folks,

Particle is aware of a recent ESET antivirus update that’s causing issues.

ESET antivirus rolled out a change on April 17 that broke HTTPS for all Node.js programs on Windows.

The workaround until they fix this is to disable SSL protection using these steps
([KB3126] Disable SSL/TLS filtering in ESET Windows home products):

  • Open ESET
  • Press F5 to go to Advanced settings
  • Click Protections -> SSL
  • Either disable all SSL protection as shown in [KB3126] Disable SSL/TLS filtering in ESET Windows home products or add the Particle CLI to the Application scan rules as "Ignore".
  • The EXEs to add to the Application scan rules are:
  • C:\Users
    \AppData\Local\particle\node-v16.20.0-windows-x64\bin\node.exe
  • C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\particle\bin\particle.exe
  • Save the settings and reboot.

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Thanks for sharing this @no1089!

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