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check only slows down the system performance. Therefore, it is advisable
to exclude these files from the monitoring.
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To exclude some files from the objects to be checked when
they are opened, saved or executed,
in the
Options
section of the configuration file define values for the
following lines:
•
OpenExcludeMask
—the full path to the directory with files to be
ignored when opened. You can enter more than one path in this
line, but make sure to separate them by colons. For example:
OpenExcludeMask /etc:/var/log:/usr/include:/lib:/usr/lib
•
WriteExcludeMask
—the full path to the directory with files to be
ignored when saved. You can enter more than one path in this
line, but make sure to separate them by colons. For example:
WriteExcludeMask /etc:/var/log
•
ExecExcludeMask
—the full path to the directory with files to be
ignored when executed. You can enter more than one path in
this line, but make sure to separate them by colons. For
example:
ExecExcludeMask /usr/bin:/bin:/sbin
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The settings described above are also applied to subdirectories of
the defined directories. For example, by entering the path
/etc
, you
also exclude the files located in the subdirectories from the check,
for example,
/etc/lib
and
/etc/passwd/my.
Some files on a computer are opened quite often and every time they are
opened, they are checked for viruses by the Monitor program. This may
result in the essential decrease of the user performance. To avoid the
problem there was developed the cache memory that stores these files’
names and the time when they were last checked. This way, before
checking for viruses in a file Monitor searches the cache for the file details.
This accelerates the check procedure, but you must remember that too
many files in the cache may also slow down the program performance,
since the time spent for the check becomes equal to the time when the
program searches for the details in its cache.
