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default on-access scan windows exclusions

nikolaj

Hello,

I would like to know if the exclusions in the picture below are put by default by Sophos or instead you must put it.



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  • 0 in reply to nikolaj

    They are not default.  Someone has chosen to add them to your policy.

    Many of the entries on that list aren't scanned by default beyond checking they are not executable anyway.

    I would remove them all and re-enable scanning of remote files.  

    Just follow the article I mention for any specific roles the computers that are using that AV policy.

    *.jar is a concern as you excluding all .jar files from all locations on disk.

    Regards,

    Jak

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  • 0 in reply to jak

     "scanning of remote files" means the shares for example?

    .jar by default is scanned and is better leave this way?

  • +1 in reply to nikolaj

    Yes, scanning of a file, say opened by a local process on a remote file share.  E.g. \\server\share\1.exe.

    You would want to scan .jar files.  The only reason you may not is if you had a specific Java application which was suffering performance issues.  Even then, you would exclude files in a specifc location to minimize risk rather than all .jar files on the system.  This might also follow submitting sample files to Support to see if there was a reason there was a performance issue scanning them.

    Regards,

    Jak

  • 0 in reply to jak

    The only reason you may not is if you had a specific Java application which was suffering performance issues.  

    That is the case.

    Even then, you would exclude files in a specifc location to minimize risk rather than all .jar files on the system.

    I agree with you.

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