I downloaded the latest Local update and Avast Antivirus flagged one of the program files - the ‘tempfile.ps1’ and quarantined it as malicious (IDP.ALEXA.53). Anyone else have this issue and/or do you know if this might just be a false positive. I sent an email to Avast about it but haven’t receive…

Downloaded latest Local update, Avast flagged the 'tempfile.ps1' and quarantined it as malicious so app won't open

ben.turner May 17, 2021, 2:28pm 2

Hey @ETA, Welcome to the Local Community Forums!

I’ve seen that error before. You can ignore the error or manually re-install the Microsoft libraries as is mentioned in this forum topic:

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