Windows 10 - Exiftool hangs forever on startup

[weberjn]

The pure Perl version runs fine.
Running exiftool(-k) -ver hangs forever. Process Explorer shows lots of open DLLs in %AppData%\..\Local\Temp\par-776162626c65

C:\Daten\winutl>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]

C:\Daten\winutl>exiftool(-k) -ver
Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)
^C
C:\Daten\winutl>perl "C:\Program Files\ExifTool-10.24\exiftool" -ver
10.24

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks for this report.  Do you have any antivirus software that could be interfering with ExifTool?  Edit: Windows Defender may cause this problem.  See this thread.

- Phil