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User’s Guide 217
Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
Each entry in the exclusion list displays the path to the item, notes whether the
application will also exclude any nested folders within the target, and explains
whether the application will exclude the item when it scans files, when it scans
your hard disk boot sector, or both.
By default, you can exclude up to 100 unique scan targets. To change this
number, open the VirusScan control panel, click the Components tab, then
enter a new figure in the
Maximum number of exclude items text box.
To exclude files or folders from scan operations, follow these steps:
1. To start from the Console window, select the task you created in the task
list, then click in the Console toolbar.
2. The VirusScan Properties dialog box appears (see Figure 6-8 on page
204 ). Click the Exclusion tab to display the correct property page. ( Figure
6-15 ).
Figure 6-15. VirusScan Properties dialog box - Exclusion page
3. Specify the items you want to exclude. You can
• Add files, folders or volumes to the exclusion list. Click Add to
open the Add Exclude Item dialog box ( Figure 6-16 ).