McAfee: Exclude entire folder trees from scan

David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: <Mister.Fred.Ma.RemoveThis@gmail.com>
>
> | I'm using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0. Is there a way to exclude
> | files and directory subtrees from the scan? Thanks.
>
> Yes.
>
> Go to the VirusScan Console.
>
> Right-Clink on "On-Access Scan" and choose "Properties"
>
> Choose "All Processees"
> Choose "Detection"
> Choose "Exclusions"
>
> Clicki on "Add"
> Browse to the folder you want excluded.
>
> Check the box "also exclude subfolders"
>
> Change other settings as needed.

Thanks Dave. I'm actually doing a manual scan, so I went to the
corresponding exclusion in on-demand scanning tab.

Running VirusScan as administrator, I found that I cannot exclude
folders that belong to other users. This supports my suspicion
somewhat, that VirusScan can't access files besides those that are
accessible from the account that it runs as. Unfortunately, this
implies that the scan needs to be done from the admin account and the
regular user account.
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Mister.Fred.Ma DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote:
> David H. Lipman wrote:
> > From: <Mister.Fred.Ma DeleteThis @gmail.com>
> >
> > | I'm using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0. Is there a way to exclude
> > | files and directory subtrees from the scan? Thanks.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Go to the VirusScan Console.
> >
> > Right-Clink on "On-Access Scan" and choose "Properties"
> >
> > Choose "All Processees"
> > Choose "Detection"
> > Choose "Exclusions"
> >
> > Clicki on "Add"
> > Browse to the folder you want excluded.
> >
> > Check the box "also exclude subfolders"
> >
> > Change other settings as needed.
>
> Thanks Dave. I'm actually doing a manual scan, so I went to the
> corresponding exclusion in on-demand scanning tab.
>
> Running VirusScan as administrator, I found that I cannot exclude
> folders that belong to other users. This supports my suspicion
> somewhat, that VirusScan can't access files besides those that are
> accessible from the account that it runs as. Unfortunately, this
> implies that the scan needs to be done from the admin account and the
> regular user account.

My mistake. The scan run as administrator *will* delve into nonamin
user accounts and scan them, even though the administrator cannot delve
into the nonadmin user's folders to exclude specific folders. Is there
another way to exclude those folders? I'm not keen on running the scan
as nonadministrator, since I haven't encountered information to assure
me that such a scan will be able to access all files.
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>From <Mister.Fred.Ma.DeleteThis@gmail.com>:
> I'm using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0. Is there a way to
> exclude files and directory subtrees from the scan? Thanks.

David H. Lipman wrote:
> Yes. Go to the VirusScan Console.
> Right-Clink on "On-Access Scan" and choose "Properties"
>
> Choose "All Processees"
> Choose "Detection"
> Choose "Exclusions"
>
> Clicki on "Add"
> Browse to the folder you want excluded.
> Check the box "also exclude subfolders"
> Change other settings as needed.

Mister.Fred.Ma.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Dave. I'm actually doing a manual scan, so I went to the
> corresponding exclusion in on-demand scanning tab.
>
> Running VirusScan as administrator, I found that I cannot exclude
> folders that belong to other users. This supports my suspicion
> somewhat, that VirusScan can't access files besides those that are
> accessible from the account that it runs as. Unfortunately, this
> implies that the scan needs to be done from the admin account and
> the regular user account.

Mister.Fred.Ma.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> My mistake. The scan run as administrator *will* delve into nonamin
> user accounts and scan them, even though the administrator cannot
> delve into the nonadmin user's folders to exclude specific folders.
> Is there another way to exclude those folders? I'm not keen on
> running the scan as nonadministrator, since I haven't encountered
> information to assure me that such a scan will be able to access all
> files.

Actually, I encountering some very strange behaviour with VirusScan
even after excluding certain file trees as a nonadmin user. For
example, one of the rather large archive files is

c:\cygwin\home\NonAdmin\User\Some\Path\Archive.tgz

and I've excluded

c:\cygwin\home\NonAdmin\User\Some\

VirusScan still scans the entire file tree contained in Archive.tgz.
The scan window shows (for example):

Scanning in: c:\cygwin\bin
File: Archive.tgz\Subfolder\SubSubFolder\File

There are no links (either windows shortcuts or cygwin links) in
c:\cygwin\bin.

Can anyone can shed some light on this?
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>From <Mister.Fred.Ma.RemoveThis@gmail.com>:
> I'm using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0. Is there a way to
> exclude files and directory subtrees from the scan? Thanks.

David H. Lipman wrote:
> Yes. Go to the VirusScan Console.
> Right-Clink on "On-Access Scan" and choose "Properties"
>
> Choose "All Processees"
> Choose "Detection"
> Choose "Exclusions"
>
> Clicki on "Add"
> Browse to the folder you want excluded.
> Check the box "also exclude subfolders"
> Change other settings as needed.

Mister.Fred.Ma.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Dave. I'm actually doing a manual scan, so I went to the
> corresponding exclusion in on-demand scanning tab.
>
> Running VirusScan as administrator, I found that I cannot exclude
> folders that belong to other users. This supports my suspicion
> somewhat, that VirusScan can't access files besides those that are
> accessible from the account that it runs as. Unfortunately, this
> implies that the scan needs to be done from the admin account and
> the regular user account.

Mister.Fred.Ma.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> My mistake. The scan run as administrator *will* delve into nonamin
> user accounts and scan them, even though the administrator cannot
> delve into the nonadmin user's folders to exclude specific folders.
> Is there another way to exclude those folders? I'm not keen on
> running the scan as nonadministrator, since I haven't encountered
> information to assure me that such a scan will be able to access all
> files.

Mister.Fred.Ma.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> Actually, I encountering some very strange behaviour with VirusScan
> even after excluding certain file trees as a nonadmin user. For
> example, one of the rather large archive files is
>
> c:\cygwin\home\NonAdmin\User\Some\Path\Archive.tgz
>
> and I've excluded
>
> c:\cygwin\home\NonAdmin\User\Some\
>
> VirusScan still scans the entire file tree contained in Archive.tgz.
> The scan window shows (for example):
>
> Scanning in: c:\cygwin\bin
> File: Archive.tgz\Subfolder\SubSubFolder\File
>
> There are no links (either windows shortcuts or cygwin links) in
> c:\cygwin\bin.

Actually, I found the problem. There is a small inconspicuous
checkbox for excluding subfolders.
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