[clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows

[newcomer01]

Hello Richard,

maybe it is now time to switch to Linux? 😉
Here we have lot of options to exculde and include paths for scanning (with regex support too) 😉
Sorry, i have no experience with clamav on Win as reason that I switched long time ago to Ubuntu LTS
But filesize problems while scan we have on Linux too.

Hope that someone other user can support you with the Win Version of clamav.

kind regards,
Marc


Von / From: Clamav User Mailinglist <mailto:clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
An / To: Newcomer01 <mailto:newcomer01 at posteo.de>
CC / CC: Richard Rosner <mailto:rrosner5 at gmail.com>
Gesendet / Sent: Samstag, Januar 28, 2023 um 12:49 (at 12:49 PM) +0100
Betreff / Subject: [clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows
> Hi,
> I'm trying to make a full scan of my PC with clamscan.exe on Win10. Unfortunately, my C Volume is too big and my PC too slow to finish the scan in a day. So of course when I start it the next day, I want to exclude larger directories that already have been scanned. That works great with some directories, but I just can't figure out a way to exclude C:\Program Files\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ from the scan. And I did try many variations. "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\", "C:\\Program Files*\\", %ProgramFiles(x86)%\\, C:\\"Program Files (x86)"\\ or "C:\\Program^ Files^ ^(x86^)\\" but nothing works. Sadly, Googling for that also doesn't bring up anything helpful.
>
> Can anybody make any suggestions? And could such tips be included to the documentation or somewhere else?
>
> Best Greeting
> Richard
>
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