Options: exclusions (Permanent - Advanced)

Note: certain options are only available depending on the product purchased and the operating system configuration. For more information, see Differences between versions.

Exclusions allow you to indicate directories, files and/or extensions you do not want scanned.

Directories

As part of the exclusions you can indicate entire directories so that they will not be scanned. You can exclude a directory by itself or a directory together with all its subdirectories.

Add: pressing the Add button opens a window which enables you to indicate the directories you do not want scanned. A button bearing a file folder symbol allows you to indicate either that you wish to exclude all the subdirectories included in the directory which you have excluded from scanning, or that you are excluding only the files which depend directly on the directory in question.

Remove: pressing this button removes directories from the list of directories not to be scanned.

Clear: this button lets you quickly empty the list of directories which are not to be scanned.

Files

In the exclusions section you can also add files which you do not want scanned. You can indicate that a certain file is not to be scanned or that none of the occurrences of that file is to be scanned during the entire scanning operation. For example, if you have a file called EXAMPLE.EXE in several locations, you can either exclude one of those occurrences from scanning or all of them.

Add: pressing this button brings up a window which enables you to indicate the files you do not want scanned. A button bearing a file folder symbol allows you to indicate whether all occurrences of a certain file are to be excluded or only the one you have selected.

Remove: this button allows you to delete a file from the list of exclusions.

Clear: this button lets you easily empty the list of files which are not to be scanned.

Extensions

You can also exclude from scanning all files that have a certain extension. For this purpose, just as there is a list of extensions to be scanned, there is a list of extensions which are excluded from the scan.

Extension: you can use this edit box to indicate the extensions that you want included in the excluded extensions list.

Add: when you click on this button, the extension indicated in the edit box provided is added to the list of extensions which will not be scanned.

Remove: removes the selected extensions from the list.