Problem adding exception

I recently went through my annual format/reinstall and am having trouble getting NOD32 back to where I had it. In particular, I am finding myself unable to disable boot sector scanning of the A:\ drive.

When I try to add the boot sector via the exception options, it actually tries to scan the boot sector. I can't for the life of me figure out why it would scan when I try to make it not scan, but that's beside the point. In any case, that is keeping me from setting it to not scan the A:\ at shutdown. I have tried simply adding the a:\ folder and all subfolders, but that doesn't work either.

I had it working right beforre the format, so this is driving me nuts now especially when I go to shut down the system. Why isn't the Boot Sector exception working, and is there a registry-based way around this?

 

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Argh, change that, still not working.

I've unticked Diskettes in the Scan Media section, added a:\ as an exception, and still get an error when I go to shut down Windows. It also still won't let me disable boot sector scanning because it tries to scan the darned thing when I go to apply the changes.

What's going on?

 

Hey, AshG.

Try booting into Safe Mode. Open up the Registry Editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Eset\Nod\CurrentVersion\Modules\AMON\Settings\Config000\Settings . On the right side, you will see the DWORD value "media_floppies". Change it from "0x00000001 (1)" to "0x00000000 (0)" and reboot.

Not sure if it will work, but that is what I would try if I had to hack the registry.