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Application management using the local interface
In order to add an exclusion, press the Add button.
As the result a window Excluded object (see Figure 40) will open where
you can specify exclusions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
The following types of objects can be specified as exclusions:
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Disks, folder, files, file masks.
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Threats – types of malware and riskware;
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Files related to specific threats - specific files assigned certain types of
threats after scanning.
In order to exclude a certain folder or file (using mask) from the
Kaspersky Anti-Virus protection scope,
fill in the Object field using button
When creating a path to the folder or to an object, that you would like to
exclude from the scan scope, you can use the system environment
variables. For example, you can exclude from the scan scope Microsoft
Windows installation folder by specifying %windir% variable.
When adding objects using masks, you can enter several masks at the
same time, in this case masks must be separated by a space. If a file
name contains spaces, such names must be entered in double quotes.
Examples of legal exclusions masks:
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Masks the path to objects:
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Figure 40. Creating a list of exclusions
*.exe – all files with extension exe
*.ex? – all files with extension ex?, where ? represents any
single character
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