Excluding Shadow Copies

I refer to this now rather old thread: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=289050

Does ESET yet support the exclusion of Shadow Copies from real time scan?

IMO, the product can NOT be considered SMB ready without this feature.

I can not afford to have my Shadow Copy backups wrung thorugh the scanner.

Other than that, I really like NOD32, and I have a 100+ seat customer awaiting conclusion of this issue.

Cheers
Michael.

 

Hi mlynchit,

Thank you for your patience. I can confirm info from other thread. There is not yet any solution ready which should allow you to add kernet paths to exclusions.

The appropriate parties have been notified so that this feature is added in the future.

 

Thanks Tony

It is a shame.

I advised my team we will have to avoid NOD32 for now

"NOD32 has no way to excluded shadow copies from scanning

What this means is:
1) If you were to image a live server (i.e using ShadowProtect or Acronis), obviously all data on the machine is processed and copied to a backup device
2) NOD32 realtime scanning scans EVERY single file as the backup runs
3) Therefore, every time you image a server, effectively a full virus scan is performed
4) But that is silly, because the scan is against a read-only shadow copy, and therefore can not clean the files anyway
5) Also, obviously, very slow.

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Michael.

 

Why not use EFSW and use eShell scripts to disable Real Time protection before starting a backup?