Excluding items from scanning

Exclude items from scanning as follows:

• Use extensions to exclude specific file types from scanning.
• Use exclusions to exclude specific items, such as files or drives, from scanning. You can create drive-level exclusions (X:), directory-level exclusions (X:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\), or file-level exclusions (X:\Program Files\SomeApp\SomeApp.exe).
• Consider excluding media drives from on-access scanning for specific users who use them a considerable amount of time. Media drives read and write temporary files, and each file is intercepted and scanned each time it is used, making scanning slower.
• Use the Exclude remote files option when you do not want remotely located files (on network resources) to be scanned. We recommend that all computers scan remote files when accessing them; however, you may want to select this option on file servers or in specific cases where large or constantly changing files are accessed remotely.