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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: KirillK on November 06, 2019, 11:32:40 AM

Title: Avast Antivirus > Exceptions (path to specific folder not to scan)
Post by: KirillK on November 06, 2019, 11:32:40 AM

Hello there,


I have a question regarding adding some specific folders as exceptions to the Avast Antivirus so it doesn't scan them.
The question is: when I add an asterix - does it imply all nested directories up to the bottom, or only 1 level (files in all directories which match asterix)

In other words, does:
D:/DEV/*

will inlcude
D:/DEV/Dir1/Dir2/Dir3

or just
D:/DEV/Dir1

Thank you!

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Windows 8.1
Avast Antivirus 19.8.2393 (build 19.8.4793.541)

Title: Re: Avast Antivirus > Exceptions (path to specific folder not to scan)
Post by: Asyn on November 06, 2019, 11:41:03 AM

-> https://support.avast.com/article/168/ (Excluding files/websites)

Title: Re: Avast Antivirus > Exceptions (path to specific folder not to scan)
Post by: Pondus on November 06, 2019, 11:43:29 AM

you can test it ... download and save EICAR test file in those locations and see if it is detected

Title: Re: Avast Antivirus > Exceptions (path to specific folder not to scan)
Post by: igor on November 06, 2019, 12:34:02 PM

It matches anything below, i.e. any number of subfolders.