Copy/Pasteable Client Antivirus Exclusions

By | 2015-03-08

Here’s a quick block of text that can be used to copy and paste into the excluded file locations dialog of the Microsoft Endpoint Protection client, compiled using KB822158. It is suitable for Windows client machines of any version up to Windows 8.1

C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Datastore.edb;
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res*.log;
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res*.jrs;
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Edb.chk;
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Tmp.edb;
C:\Windows\Security\Database\*.edb;
C:\Windows\Security\Database\*.sdb;
C:\Windows\Security\Database\*.log;
C:\Windows\Security\Database\*.chk;
C:\Windows\Security\Database\*.jrs;
C:\ProgramData\NTUser.pol;
C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Registry.pol;
C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\User\Registry.pol;
C:\pagefile.sys;
C:\hiberfil.sys;