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How to exclude a process?

MaxSoukhomlinov

Does anyone know how to exclude a process and all files it touches from real-time scan?

We want to improve the speed of backups and would like to exclude backup exec processes and files they read from being scanned by Sophos realtme scan.

Having used other products such as Trend and KAV, both have support for this however we are unable to find a similar feature in Sophos.

Cheers,

Max

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    Hello Behzad,

    excuse me if I sound snotty. Can we use Java.exe *32 as the value? - that's one of the reasons there is no interface for excluding processes (and that it's not in the knowledgebase). The *32 is just how taskgmgr.exe tells you it's a 32bit process, the name is just java.exe (as e.g. Process Explorer will tell you). Furthermore a process should only be excluded when absolutely necessary and with careful consideration. By no means you should exclude  A lot of processes!

    More than one threat uses Java .class files - excluding files accessed by java.exe from being scanned is quite dangerous.   

    What issues do you want to resolve by this? There are likely other - less risky - ways to overcome them. 

    Christian

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    Hello Behzad,

    excuse me if I sound snotty. Can we use Java.exe *32 as the value? - that's one of the reasons there is no interface for excluding processes (and that it's not in the knowledgebase). The *32 is just how taskgmgr.exe tells you it's a 32bit process, the name is just java.exe (as e.g. Process Explorer will tell you). Furthermore a process should only be excluded when absolutely necessary and with careful consideration. By no means you should exclude  A lot of processes!

    More than one threat uses Java .class files - excluding files accessed by java.exe from being scanned is quite dangerous.   

    What issues do you want to resolve by this? There are likely other - less risky - ways to overcome them. 

    Christian

    :26371
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