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Nostraddi


Joined: 13 May 2013
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Hi Team and Users!

first of all - thanks for Clam on Windows. I use it often and it protects when i want to. Wonderful.

My Question :

How can i stop ClamWIN to scan dedicated and static directories?

- I know the "Filter" Option but it seems to ignore my wish to filter out my POP3 Directories.
The Filter i set up is i.e. :
C:\DONTSCANTHISDIR

After a full scan by task the Log says something like :

C:\DONTSCANTHISDIR "Access denied"

Which tells me that ClamWin tried to scan the directory - even if i set up the Filter to do not so.

Any Idea?
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GuitarBob


Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Thanks for using ClamWin!

Yes, it appears that ClamWin tried to scan that folder but couldn't because access was denied--don't know why access denied. Anyway, perhaps your filter was set up wrong. This works for me: C:\Malware\* when I want to filter an entire folder. Include the star and see what happens.

By the way, ClamWin will ignore the filter when you do a manual scan of a file.

Regards,
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Nostraddi


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Hi, thanks for the follow up!

Filter is set many ways to get to Rome.

Wildcards are used and a test set of regexp, also. i.e.

Dont scan C:\DONTSCAN and any files in it
C:\DONTSCAN\* or
C:\DONTSCAN\*.*
or as regexp
<C>

The only way that works for me is :

C:\DONTSCAN\THISFILE.TYPE

or

*.TYPE

Anything wrong with this up there?
ANd - of course. If a file is specified the filter wont work, that makes sense and is needed.
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GuitarBob


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If something else works okay for you, that is fine. I've had trouble with getting command line statements to work for me since version .95.

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Nostraddi


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I work with clamav on linux command line - in there is everything okay.

My solutions for ClamWIN doesn´t work at all, thats my problem.
None of the Filters above do what they should.
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GuitarBob


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As I said, starting with ClamWin version .95, something changed. I have been unable to prepare virus signatures for HTML since then because I cannot use a batch file to capture the 3 temp files (HTML, JS, and notags) for inspection.

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