V4 - Exclusions not working?

Hi all,

I must be doing something stupid, since this is fundamental.

V4 AntiVirus Business Edition.

Within:

Antivirus and antispyware > ThreatSense > Setup > Extensions

I have added: LDF, LOG and CHK entries.

Within:

Antivirus and antispyware > Real-time file system protection > Setup > Extensions
I have added: LDF, LOG and CHK entries.



If I then close the setup screen and look a protection Status > Statistics I will often see against Scanned Object files with CHK, LDF or LOG extensions. These should all be omitted, surely?

Many thanks for all suggestions!



Jim

 

Could you download the eicar test file, rename it to eicar.log and then scan it with these extension exclusions in place?

 

Nice idea, but it's the realtime scanner I'm concerned about.

I currently have .ldf files excluded, yet they're still being scnned:

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Jim

 

I, too, meant real-time protection. By doing as I suggested you could verify if those files are only processed, but not scanned when the program determines they shouldn't be or whether exclusions don't work properly and eicar would actually be scanned and detected.

 

Ok, the UI is a bit misleading.

I set up ESET to not scan .abc files, and I then visited the EICAR website to get the EICAR text. I pasted the text into Noteoad and saved the file.

Whilst the file was not rejected by ESET, the name did appear in the Statistics screen against the "Object Scanned" field. So even though an object is being skipped (excluded) it shows up as having been scanned.


Jim