Procedure
- Select Enable scan exclusion.
- In the Scan Exclusion List
(Directories) section, configure the required settings.
- Select Exclude directories where
Trend Micro products are installed to automatically
exclude directories associated with other Trend Micro products.For more information, see Trend Micro Product Directory Exclusions.
- Type a directory path to exclude from scans
and click the + button.The Security Agent does not scan files located in the specified directory (and sub-directories).
Note
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You can specify a maximum of 256 directories to exclude from scanning.
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Directory exclusions support the use of wildcard characters.For more information, see Wildcard Exceptions.
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- Select Exclude directories where
Trend Micro products are installed to automatically
exclude directories associated with other Trend Micro products.
- In the Scan Exclusion List (Files)
section, configure the required settings.
- Type a file name or the file name with full
directory path to exclude from scans and click the
+ button.
Note
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You can specify a maximum of 256 files to exclude from scanning.
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File exclusions support the use of wildcard characters.For more information, see Wildcard Exceptions.
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- Type a file name or the file name with full
directory path to exclude from scans and click the
+ button.
- In the Scan Exclusion List (File
Extensions) section, configure the required settings.
- Select or type a file extension to exclude from
scans and click the Add > button.
Note
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You can specify a maximum of 256 file extensions to exclude from scanning.
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For Manual Scan, Scheduled Scan, and Scan Now, use a question mark (?) to replace a single character or an asterisk (*) to replace multiple characters as wildcard characters. For example, if you do not want to scan all files with extensions starting with D, such as
DOC
,DOT
, orDAT
, type D* or D??.
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- Select or type a file extension to exclude from
scans and click the Add > button.