Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition User Manual page 38

Using Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition
To exclude a file from a scan
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Be careful with exclusions. If you exclude a file from a scan, no action will
be taken to clean it if the file later becomes infected. This could be a
potential risk to the security of your computer.
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Do one of the following:
For Realtime Protection, in the left pane, click Configure, then, in
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the right pane, click File System Realtime Protection.
For all other scan types, in the pane where you specify what to
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scan, click Options.
Check Exclude Files And Folders.
Click Exclusions to specify the file to exclude.
To enable prescan exclusions, check Check File For Exclusion
Before Scanning.
Different situations determine how this option affects performance. For
example:
If you copy a large folder that is in the exclusions list and prescan
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exclusions is enabled, the copying process is shorter since the
folder contents are excluded prior to scanning.
If you copy over a large folder that is not in the exclusions list,
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disabling prescan exclusions improves performance.
Click Extensions.
Specify the file types that you want to exclude.
You can use the ? wildcard to specify any character. For example, XL?
excludes .xls, .xlt, .xlw, and .xla files.
Click Files/Folders.
Specify what to exclude.
Click OK.