[clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows

[Lyle Giese]

I would try the 'short' names of these directories.

dir /X c:\

And yes the /X is case sensitive.  /X displays the short names.

Lyle Giese


On 1/28/23 08:58, clamav.mbourne at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> If it's expecting a regex, perhaps try:
>   --exclude-dir="/mnt/c/Program Files \(x86\)/"
> without the quotes, that would probably be:
>   --exclude-dir=/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \\(x86\\)/
>
> Depending on the flavour of regex used, the parentheses may indicate 
> grouping in the regex, so may need to be escaped with a backslash to 
> match literal parentheses.  In the second example, the backslashes 
> forming part of the regex need to be escaped themselves to avoid being 
> interpreted specially by the shell.
>
> I'm not on Windows so can't try those to see if they do work - it was 
> just a thought that might (or might not) help.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> Richard Rosner via clamav-users wrote:
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto:clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>>
>>     An / To: Newcomer01 <mailto:newcomer01 at posteo.de
>>     <mailto:newcomer01 at posteo.de>>
>>     CC / CC: Richard Rosner <mailto:rrosner5 at gmail.com
>>     <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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