antivirus question

[djc]

I posted this before but I think someone accidentally responded to it
thinking they were responding to something else. So I am reposting.

should I be configuring my antivirus software to exclude access (mdb) files?

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

This is probably one of those 'it depends' questions. Personally, I don't
configure my anti-virus software to exclude Access files, not because I
think there is any great risk in doing so (I always manually scan any new
file from any external source anyway) but because I am not encountering any
performance problems. If you are encountering performance problems, then by
all means try it and see if it makes any noticeable difference.

 

[djc]

thanks for the reply Brendan. I'm not so much worried about the performance.
I'm more concerned with stability/corruption. I was wondering if it was a
general good practice to exlude the mdb files because of AV software
possibly causing corruptions or general stability issues. I don't know this
to be true, thats why I posted the question. But for some reason I think I
have heard or read that at some time...

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

All I can say is, 'not in my experience'.

 

[djc]

ok, Thanks for the input. Its appreciated.

All I can say is, 'not in my experience'.

 

[William Hindman]

....I exclude them on internal scans ...but make sure they get fully scanned
when importing.

William Hindman