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I was just going to do my regular virus scanning and accidentally ran into
this Microsoft Article ID 822158 and it looks like they forgot to tell *how*
to do it.
For (at least) Windows XP, Microsoft says to use the registry to EXCLUDE
some files (shown below) from the virusscanner, but Article ID 822158
doesn't say how to do this. It just tells you what folder they are in
Datastore.edb file (found in %windir%\softwareDistribution\Datastore)
and the following files from %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs
Edb*.log
Note The wildcard character indicates that there may be several files.
.. Res1.log
.. Res2.log
.. Edb.chk
.. Tmp.edb
My virusscanner goes into detail about how to choose the files you DO want
to scan, but not how you can exclude specific files (or their folder).
So how do we exclude these files once we get into the registry? I'm
familiar with the registry, but need some instruction for this one
this Microsoft Article ID 822158 and it looks like they forgot to tell *how*
to do it.
For (at least) Windows XP, Microsoft says to use the registry to EXCLUDE
some files (shown below) from the virusscanner, but Article ID 822158
doesn't say how to do this. It just tells you what folder they are in
Datastore.edb file (found in %windir%\softwareDistribution\Datastore)
and the following files from %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs
Edb*.log
Note The wildcard character indicates that there may be several files.
.. Res1.log
.. Res2.log
.. Edb.chk
.. Tmp.edb
My virusscanner goes into detail about how to choose the files you DO want
to scan, but not how you can exclude specific files (or their folder).
So how do we exclude these files once we get into the registry? I'm
familiar with the registry, but need some instruction for this one