Anti-malware software may report Spotfire installed client temp folders to be suspicious

Product: Spotfire Analyst
Versions: All

Summary:
Some anti-malware software may report Spotfire Analyst client temp folders to be suspicious. This article explains why and what should be done.

Details:
When users launch  Spotfire installed client and work on it, there may be a few folders / files created within the Windows user profile's temp folder of that user who is logged in. 

These temporary files / folders may be flagged by certain anti-malware applications as suspicious because the files contained within these folders may have double extensions (Ex: doc.exe)
 

Here is where the folder location would be:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\TIBCO\Spotfire\<version>\Misc-<number>\

Resolution:
These are expected temp files used by the Spotfire application and there has to be exceptions setup within the anti-malware applications to not scan the TIBCO folder as these are working folders when the Analyst is opened and they will be removed when the Analyst is closed. 

For the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player, see related article 000043269 Temporary files like Spotfire.tsp********.txt.exe created in TIBCO Spotfire Web Player temp directories