Oh I see, sorry. I’ve always been using that to recursively scan. If I remove the asterisk completely will it still do the same thing?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 12:40 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
Hi there,

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Michael Kyriacou via clamav-users wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:21 AM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>
>> You are using the asterisk charater in your command lines incorrectly.
>> You need to quote it (and any other 'special' characters you use in a
>> command), or (in the case of a path) quote the entire path.  Otherwise
>> the shell will expand the asterisk ...
>
> I changed the ExcludePath to:
> .*\.sys$
>
> The error still occurs. I do a ticket created for an identical issue.
> It looks like there is a patch to fix the problem, but I’m not sure how to
> apply said patch

The asterisks in your command lines, not in your configuration file.

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73,
Ged.

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