F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS FOR WINDOWS SERVERS 9.00 Administrator's Manual - page 32
3. Click
Apply.
The options you selected under
Scanning options
determine which files are included in future manual and
scheduled scans.
Note: All file types or locations on the excluded items list will override the settings that you defined here.
File types on the excluded items list will not be scanned even if you selected them to be scanned here.
Exclude file types
You can exclude files from manual and scheduled scans by their file type.
1. Go to
Server Protection
➤
Manual Scanning
and click the
Settings
tab.
2. In
Exclude from scanning
, click
Configure...
.
3. To exclude a file type:
a) Select the
File Types
tab.
b) Select
Exclude files with these extensions
.
c) Type a file extension that identifies the type of files that you want to exclude, in the field next to the
Add
button.
To specify files that have no extension, type '.'. You can use the wildcard '?' to represent any single
character, or '*' to represent any number of characters.
For example, to exclude executable files, type
exe
in the field.
d) Click
Add
.
4. Repeat the previous step for any other extension you want to be excluded from being scanned for viruses.
5. Click
OK
to close the
Exclude from scanning
dialog box.
6. Click
Apply.
The selected file types are excluded from future manual and scheduled scans.
Exclude files by location
You can define a list of excluded folders or drives that you do not want to be scanned for viruses in manual
and scheduled scanning.
Note: Files in folders or drives that are excluded from scanning are not scanned even though they might
be of a type that is included in scanned file types.
To define a list of files, folders, or drives excluded by location:
1. Go to
Server Protection
➤
Manual Scanning
and click the
Settings
tab.
2. In
Exclude from scanning
, click
Configure
.
3. To exclude a file, drive, or folder:
a) Select the
Objects
tab.
b) Select
Exclude objects (files, folders, ...)
.
c) Click
Add
.
d) Select the file, drive, or folder that you want to exclude from virus scanning.
e) Click
OK
.
4. Repeat the previous step to exclude other files, drives, or folders from being scanned for viruses.
5. Click
OK
to close the
Exclude from scanning
dialog box.
6. Click
Apply.
The selected files, drives or folders are excluded from future manual and scheduled scans.
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