For details on a certain option, click a corresponding item in the picture.
To get information on options available in other tabs, click the name of this tab in the picture
On the Excluded tab, you can specify folders and files to be excluded from SpIDer Guard checks.
The Exclude system files flag instructs to exclude from scanning system files, which are included in the internal list of SpIDer Guard component. This list is composed for each Windows OS version according to recommendations from the Microsoft® company on using the antivirus software.
If the Exclude system files flag is set, the following options are available:
◆Exclude Prefetcher database files flag instructs to exclude from scanning database files of the Prefetcher (Microsoft Windows operating system component, which accelerates OS bootstrap loading and decrease programs loading time at the expense of storing information, which is used for loading) system component.
◆Exclude Windows search database files flag instructs to exclude from scanning database files of Windows OS search service.
In the List of excluded directories and files section, you can list folders and files which you want to exclude from scanning (for example, Quarantine folders, Program files folder, temporary files (swap files), etc.).
By default, the list is empty. You can add either definite files and folders, or use masks to exclude from scanning a group of files.
To configure list of exclusions
1.To add a file or folder to the list of exclusions, do one of the following:
◆To add an existing file or folder, click the 
button and select it in the standard dialog window. You can also enter the full path to the file or folder.
◆To exclude from scanning all files or folder with particular name, enter the name without path.
◆To exclude a group of files of folders, enter the mask that determines their names.
The mask defines template for an object definition. It may contain regular characters from the file names and special characters like the following: •* replaces any (including the empty one) sequence of any symbols; •? replaces any one symbol in the specified position. Examples: •Report*.doc defines all Microsoft Word documents which names start with the word Report, e.g. ReportFebruary.doc, Report121209.doc etc. •*.exe defines all executable files, i.e. that have the EXE extension, e.g. setup.exe, iTunes.exe etc. •photo????09.jpg defines all JPG images which names start with the word photo, end with 09 and contain exact number of 4 other characters in the middle, e.g. photo121209.jpg, photoJune09.jpg, photo----09.jpg etc. |
2.Click Add.
3.To add other files and folders to the list, repeat steps 1 to 2.
4.To remove a file or folder from the list, select the corresponding item and click Remove.