If, while downloading or installing SentryPC, you receive an alert from your antivirus or security software do not be alarmed. SentryPC is not a virus, is not harmful, and it cannot damage your device. Your antivirus scanner is being triggered by the monitoring and control abilities of SentryPC. The majority of antivirus scanners today alert you when just about any application that could be potentially used in a malicious or privacy-invasive manner is installed — this includes keystroke loggers, activity monitoring software, remote administration tools, and many others… whether they are commercially available and well-known or not.
Your antivirus scanner is being triggered by the monitoring and control abilities of SentryPC. The antivirus scanner is doing its job — it is reporting something with powerful monitoring and control abilities over the device. Imagine if you thought you were downloading a song, video, game, etc, but in reality it had monitoring and control abilities over your device. You would want your antivirus scanner to warn you right? That is the same thing happening here, but those abilities are why you purchased SentryPC — you want to monitor and control the activity of your device.
By excluding SentryPC from your antivirus scanner you are essentially saying 'yes, I know what SentryPC is, what it does, and wish to allow it to operate'. Without exclusion your antivirus scanner will assume you do not have knowledge of SentryPC or its abilities and can prevent it from operating.