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Export Kicad Libraries while kicad isnt working

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Hello everyone,?

I have been using?Kicad 6 on Win10 laptop for months now and our antivirus software (Trellix Endpoint Security) at the company reported this data as a trojan?C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\brotlicommon.dll".?Now the file has been deleted and I cant use any of Kicads subprograms/applications (schematic editor, symbol editor, pcb editor, etc.) anymore. This means that I cant manage any library. Also whenever I try to open an application Kicad presents me 3 different error messages.?

I tried copying the deleted data from a different laptop with the same kicad version, but the antivirus software immediately deletes it after copying into my laptop.

I was hoping if I could still export all of my libraries from Kicad 6 and import them into Kicad 7. Moreover Kicad 7 is working normally and our antivirus software didnt discover any malicious data.

Here are pictures regarding the error messages that I get while opening any Kicad subprogram/applications.
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Kicad Version



I appreciate any help or suggestion to fix this dilemma.

Best regards,
Lorenzo

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The problem may be with either Trellis (most likely) or KiCad. First, report your problem to Trellis. Security software have no business to delete files, only quarantine them, because false positive detections of malware are common.? If Trellis won't co-operate, scrap it and use a better security app. I use Avast/AVG and it seems very good.

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On 2023-06-15 12:46, lorenzo.gherardelli@... wrote:

Hello everyone,?

I have been using?Kicad 6 on Win10 laptop for months now and our antivirus software (Trellix Endpoint Security) at the company reported this data as a trojan?C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\brotlicommon.dll".?Now the file has been deleted and I cant use any of Kicads subprograms/applications (schematic editor, symbol editor, pcb editor, etc.) anymore. This means that I cant manage any library. Also whenever I try to open an application Kicad presents me 3 different error messages.?

I tried copying the deleted data from a different laptop with the same kicad version, but the antivirus software immediately deletes it after copying into my laptop.

I was hoping if I could still export all of my libraries from Kicad 6 and import them into Kicad 7. Moreover Kicad 7 is working normally and our antivirus software didnt discover any malicious data.

Here are pictures regarding the error messages that I get while opening any Kicad subprogram/applications.
First

Second

Third


Kicad Version



I appreciate any help or suggestion to fix this dilemma.

Best regards,
Lorenzo

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You should be able to tell any AV software to leave certain
files/directories alone.

Also as said inn the next post the files should be quarenteened not
deleted.

If you AV sox cannot do this then get rid of it.

You can always disable or uninstall the AV sox, then copy the library
back onto the laptop. You can then export your files to wherever you want
before reinstating the AV sox.

All AV sox will do this sort of thing from time to time, they are not
perfect. This is why you need to learn how to manage things. There are
some software products that are so old, but still working that most AV
sox gets confused about. The software I'm thinking about is a very old
conferencing forum software, that frequently gets tagged as a bad file.
The solution is to exclude the install directory of that software from
the AV scanning.

Andy



On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:46:58 -0700
lorenzo.gherardelli@... wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have been using?Kicad 6 on Win10 laptop for months now and our antivirus software (Trellix Endpoint Security) at the company reported this data as a trojan C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\brotlicommon.dll". Now the file has been deleted and I cant use any of Kicads subprograms/applications (schematic editor, symbol editor, pcb editor, etc.) anymore. This means that I cant manage any library. Also whenever I try to open an application Kicad presents me 3 different error messages.

I tried copying the deleted data from a different laptop with the same kicad version, but the antivirus software immediately deletes it after copying into my laptop.

I was hoping if I could still export all of my libraries from Kicad 6 and import them into Kicad 7. Moreover Kicad 7 is working normally and our antivirus software didnt discover any malicious data.

Here are pictures regarding the error messages that I get while opening any Kicad subprogram/applications.
First

Second

Third

Kicad Version

I appreciate any help or suggestion to fix this dilemma.

Best regards,
Lorenzo
 

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If Kicad 7 works, why not just import the libraries in Kicad 7? They are just text files, like all Kicad files.

Otherwise bring your libraries to a PC not running garbage anti-virus and move the libraries or ask your IT department to build an air-gapped PC without the AV, export the libraries, and done.



On 2023-06-15 7:46 a.m., lorenzo.gherardelli@... wrote:

Hello everyone,?

I have been using?Kicad 6 on Win10 laptop for months now and our antivirus software (Trellix Endpoint Security) at the company reported this data as a trojan?C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\bin\brotlicommon.dll".?Now the file has been deleted and I cant use any of Kicads subprograms/applications (schematic editor, symbol editor, pcb editor, etc.) anymore. This means that I cant manage any library. Also whenever I try to open an application Kicad presents me 3 different error messages.?

I tried copying the deleted data from a different laptop with the same kicad version, but the antivirus software immediately deletes it after copying into my laptop.

I was hoping if I could still export all of my libraries from Kicad 6 and import them into Kicad 7. Moreover Kicad 7 is working normally and our antivirus software didnt discover any malicious data.

Here are pictures regarding the error messages that I get while opening any Kicad subprogram/applications.
First

Second

Third


Kicad Version



I appreciate any help or suggestion to fix this dilemma.

Best regards,
Lorenzo

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