Exclusions don't work....

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi All,

I started using avast because my paid for Macfee didn’t allow me to exclude locations to be scanned in real time - and now I can not get the exclusions to work in avast please help!

So from realtime scanning I want a directory, all child directories and all files to be excluded from scanning.

So I go to:

  • real time shields
  • file system shield
  • expert settings
  • exclusions
  • Add a path e.g. “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework*.*” and check all boxes R|W|X

But when looking at the scan logs these files are still being scanned.

Any ideas? At the moment this is a real power drain for my laptop scanning things when I’m developing and compiling code.

Thanks

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How are you checking the scan logs?

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Not sure if this exclusion “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework*.*” would do what you want. That would only exclude files in the "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\ folder not any sub-folder below that (lots in my case, see image). This would exclude the Framework folder, files and sub-folders “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework*”

That said why would you want to do this as it could be introducing a hole in your security.

As Igor asks, I suspect that you are checking on-demand scan logs and the file system shield, exclusions don’t cover on-demand scans (avastUI, Settings, Exclusions).