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The Unified Manager upgrade to 9.16 is triggering my security software due to a 'whoami' command. Should I be concerned?

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Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.16 for Windows

Answer

During an upgrade to Unified Manager 9.16 on Windows, the upgrade process invokes the following command:
cmd /Q /c for /F "tokens=2 delims=," %f in ('whoami /user /FO CSV /NH') do echo %~f 2>nul

  • This command merely prints the SID of the current user performing the upgrade operation. 
  • This type of operation should be expected during software installation or upgrade processes.
  • Security software may flag this as suspicious, but the alert can be ignored if activity is generated by the UM upgrade process.

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