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One of the most frustrating tasks when you set up an Antivirus Management Server from any vendor (my experience is with CA, ESET, McAfee, Symantec and Trend) is setting up the scan exclusion lists. This is the painstaking task of manually entering in every folder, extension and file that should be excluded from any scan activity. There are lots of them. Microsoft alone has 15 or so Technotes on the subject to cover their products. Then every other vendor provides their own list. To make matters worse, the exclusion list has to be entered in duplicate: Once for the real time scanner and once for the scheduled scans. What a pain!

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