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#1 User is offline   codeblue 

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 12:43 AM

I'm tiring to evaluate monitoring software, but Symantec AV Corporate 10.0.1.1000 keeps detecting the .exe and install files and quarantining them. Now whilst this is a good, reassuring thing, I don’t want it to happen to these specific files.

Is it possible to tell Symantec AV to ignore these files whilst Auto scanning? I've looked through the options and cant find anything.


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Posted 17 January 2006 - 07:53 AM

I can't remember exactly where, but there are exclusions available for Symantec.

I believe that they are in the scan options, exclusions, where you can exclude entire folders, specific file extensions, or specific files.

If you are running this from the Symantec Corporate Console, I think you have to right click the group/client, and then select client realtime protection options (or something like that). It may also be in the administrator only options.

From the client, open Symantec, click configure, File System Auto Protect, and you will see the options at the bottom.

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 04:21 PM

Thanks Grunth0s

It was here:
Custom Scan / Options / Exclude files and Folders

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Posted 30 January 2006 - 10:27 AM

Yes Symantec supports exclusion (I don't recall how), this is an essential feature for a server where you don't want certain files scanned because it will bog a server, ex: database files, log files.

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