How to exclude specific drives, folders, and files from being scanned

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How to exclude specific drives, folders, and files from being scanned

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Add an exclusion to Auto-Protect and the manual virus scan

I have a Norton 2008 product

1: Start your Norton program.

2: In the lower left corner of the window, click Options > Norton Internet Security or Norton AntiVirus.

3: In the left pane, click Exclusions.

4: Under Which disks, folders or files to exclude from risk scanning, click New.

5: Select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK.; If you want to include subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.

6: Under Which disks, folders or files to exclude from Auto-Protect scanning, click New.

7: Select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK.; If you want to include subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.

8: Click Apply > OK.

I have a Norton 2007 product

1: Start your Norton program.

2: In the main pane, click the Norton Product tab.; Where Norton Product is the name of your Norton product.

3: Click Settings.

4: Under Basic Security, click Autoprotect and then click Configure.

5: In the left pane, under Advanced Options, click Scan Exclusions.

6: Under Which disks, folders or files to exclude from Risk scanning, click New.

7: Select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK.; If you want to exclude subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.

8: Under Which disks, folders or files to exclude from Auto-Protect scanning, click New.

9: Select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK.; If you want to exclude subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.

10: Click Apply and then click OK.

I have a Norton 2006/2005/2004 product

1: Start Norton AntiVirus.
If Norton AntiVirus is installed as part of Norton SystemWorks or Norton Internet Security, then start that program.

2: Click Options. If you see a menu, click Norton AntiVirus.

3: On the left screen, click Auto-Protect > Exclusions.

4: On the right screen, click New.

5: Type the path to the file, folder, or drive that you want to exclude, or click the browse button and browse to and select the file, folder, or drive.; To exclude a folder, you must type the path and folder name in the Item box.

6: If you are running Windows 98/Me, then select the type of activity that you want to exclude by checking the appropriate box in the Exclude from section.

7: If you are running Windows 2000/XP, then you can exclude the file, folder, or drive from virus detection. You can also choose to only exclude the file, folder or drive from compressed file scanning.

8: On the left Options screen, click Manual Scan > Exclusions.

9: Repeat steps 4 through 7.

10: Click OK, and then close the Options for Norton AntiVirus window.

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Document ID: 199829164436
Last Modified: 12/10/2008
Date Created: 02/09/1998
Operating System(s): Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95B, Windows XP
Product(s): Norton AntiVirus 2003, Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional Edition, Norton AntiVirus 2004, Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional, Norton AntiVirus 2005, Norton AntiVirus 2005 3 User License, Norton AntiVirus 2006, Norton AntiVirus 2006 3 User License, Norton AntiVirus 2007