Hi,

I have an NTFS filesystem with some junction points in it:

c:\junctions\c-drive -> c:\
c:\junctions\d-drive -> d:\

clamscan is not alone in recursively entering c:\junctions\c-drive\junctions\c-drive... - other applications do it too, including NTBackup!

Is there anything I can do to get it to ignore junction points? I have tried to exclude c:\junctions\* from the scan without success.

Cheers,

Bern

I guess you are using Vista.

I don't know if this will help, but here's a link to some freeware that will let you work with junction points at https://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm on the Web. Perhaps that will help you. I'm guessing that you should probably delete/remove them if you want to use ClamWin. Junction points is an idea that Microsoft borrowed from UNIX, which it hasn't yet quite thought out completely.

Here's also a link to a Vista forum thread re: junction points at https://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/137561-ntfs-junction-points.html on the Web.

Regards,

to exclude a folder with all subfolders you need a regular expression:
<c:\\junctions\\.*>