Exclusions

If scanning a certain file, folder or file type takes a long time and you know that the object is not infected, or you get false alarms during the scan, you can exclude items from the virus scan.

The software that installed the spyware to your computer may stop working if you remove the attached spyware application. If you want to use the software application that installed the spyware application to your computer, you may have to restore it from the Quarantine repository and exclude the spyware application from the spyware scan.

IMPORTANT: Excluded items are not scanned. Make sure that they are not infected when you exclude them and remember that excluded items can become infected later. Excluding items reduces the level of your Virus and Spy Protection.

You can exclude any of the following items:
Applications
Displays all spyware items that have been excluded from the scan. Virus and Spy Protection does not warn you when it detects any of the listed spyware item.
 
Click Remove to remove the selected spyware from the exclusion list.
 
If you want to delete the removed spyware from your computer, scan the computer again. For more information, see Removing Viruses and Spyware From Your Computer.
 
To add a spyware item to the exclusion list, see Spyware Detection and Scanning Manually.
Objects
Click Add... to select the files or folders you want to exclude from scanning. Click Remove to remove the selected file or folder object from the list.
If you want to add all listed objects to the scan without clearing the list, clear the Exclude objects check box.
When you exclude a folder from scanning, all subfolders are excluded, too.
File Types
To exclude a file type from the scan, enter its filename extension and click Add.... Click Remove to remove the selected file type from the list. Separate each file type with a space, for example, AVI BMP GIF.
 
If you want to add all listed file types to the scan without clearing the list of file types, clear the Exclude files with these extensions check box.

F-Secure Corporation
www.F-Secure.com
Product Support