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Offline crwenger

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Hi,

Anyone know of a way to exclude external USB drives from On Demand Scanning Tasks?  Thanks.

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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 03:50:28 PM »
Add it to the exclusion list of that scanning (e.g., D:\*).
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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 04:13:01 PM »
They are not all mounted at the same drive letter for each machine.

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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 04:18:48 PM »
They are not all mounted at the same drive letter for each machine.
Sorry, avast does not detect the ID of the media, only the mapped drive letter.
By the way, why do you need to exclude it from scanning?
Why don't you use the "Local disks" scanning?
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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 04:21:44 PM »
They are large capacity drives with a substantial amount of data and they take forever to scan, scans kick off Monday morning and they are still running on some machines.

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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 04:26:15 PM »
Hope the programmers could help.
Although I see little usage of on demand scanning all drive with avast installed and running...
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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2011, 04:32:15 PM »
Management wants the weekly scans, end of story.

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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2011, 04:36:26 PM »
Can you direct the scanning to C:\ only, for instance, avoiding the external drives?
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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2011, 07:39:59 PM »
No, some of our machines have several fixed disk mounted and partitioned in various configurations.  I was hoping to find a way to just exclude removeable drives.

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Re: Exclude external USB drives for scheduled On Demand Scanning Tasks
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