[clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows

[Richard Rosner]

Hey Marc,
that doesn't seem to be always the solution. In fact, I just installed
clamscan in a Debian based WSL (1) instance, same problem. Only difference:
exclusion of Program Files seems to work, but not of Program FIles (x86). I
tried both --exclude-dir=/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/ and
--exclude-dir="/mnt/c/Program
Files (x86)/". Didn't help.

Richard

Am Sa., 28. Jan. 2023 um 13:04 Uhr schrieb newcomer01 via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:

> 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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