Kaspersky's blocking legitimate winget processes

Tuesday at 07:45 AM

I've been troubleshooting this for a couple of hours and the conclusion I've drawn now is that it's Kaspersky's firewall blocking, for some reason, legitimate winget processes on my PC.
I have powershell scripts running as scheduled tasks, the gist of them is that they search for updatable software and if found, they'll patch them

How do I unblock anything legitimately winget-related in Kaspersky Total Security?

every time Microsoft's WinGet team decides to update the WinGet Client, they push these updates onto the PC remotely and now you've got a whole different folder.

I'"ve tried adding the "Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.26.400.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" wwhich contains the winget.exe and AppInstaller.exe to the Exclusion Folders, but to no avail, made no difference. When I however paused KTS protection for 1 minute then ran my script, then the script (winget script) upgraded every software without issues.