Hi,
the resident checker seems to process exclusions fine if the directory names are simple.
I wanted to exclude my Thunderbird mail directory files from being scanned (they don’t have extensions, so I exclude the whole directory) but it doesn’t have any effect at all. They still get scanned on any action I take in my mailbox which slows it down.
I put this in the exclusion of the
C:\Documents and Settings\osama.DARKMATTER\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\2z6h9h9j.default\Mail\mail.gmx-1.net*.*
I tried excluding it with 8.3 notation but didn’t work either
C:\Docume~1\osama~1.dar\applic~1\thunde~1\profiles\2z6h9h9j.default\mail\mailgm~1.net*.*
Funny thing is it works fine for directories like Dir1.test or whatever.
If I can’t find a solution to this soon then I’m moving to AVG!
Open the resident protection window (leftclick the avast! tray icon) and in the expanded view, select Standard Shield and watch the “Last scanned” item when working with Thunderbird; what form of the path does that show?
(you can move your mouse over the item to see the complete tooltip)
btw I had the same issue on a laptop and on a friends PC, and there we “resolved” it by installing AVG.
But I’ve had AVAST running happily on my PC for so long, so I’m reluctant to give up on it.
The problem is, avast doesn’t adhere to the DOS acronym .
If you think about it, . isn’t really what it says – in DOS, . matches even extensionless files (even though the “dot” is not really there).
Avast doesn’t do this; the mask . won’t match extensionless files. Use simple * instead, that should do the trick.
You could cut the length of the path using the wildcard * e.g. C:*\THUNDERBIRD\PROFILES\2Z6H9H9J.DEFAULT\MAIL\MAIL.GMX-1.NET* or C:*\THUNDERBIRD\PROFILES*\MAIL.GMX-1.NET* or C:*\OSAMA.DARKMATTER*\MAIL\MAIL.GMX-1.NET* or any like combination so it isn’t too general an exclusion.
As a matter of fact, I’d generally recommend against using masks like
C:*<something>
because they can, especially if there are more of them, slow things down. Matching this wildcard is not easy (if you think about it) and uses quite some (unnecessary) CPU cycles.
