User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

Appendix A 303
pp* – Microsoft Office PowerPoint documents and files, such as: pps –
Microsoft Office PowerPoint slide, ppt – presentation, etc.
md* – Microsoft Office Access documents and files, such as: mda –
Microsoft Office Access work group, mdb – database, etc.
Remember that the actual format of a file may not correspond with the format
indicated in the file extension.
A.2. Valid file exclusion masks
Let’s look at some examples of possible masks that you can use when creating
file exclusion lists:
1. Masks without file paths:
• *.exe – all files with the extension .exe
• *.ex? – all files with the extension .ex?, where ? can represent any
one character
• test – all files with the name test
2. Masks with absolute file paths:
• C:\dir\*.* or C:\dir\* or C:\dir\ – all files in folder C:\dir\
• C:\dir\*.exe – all files with extension .exe in folder C:\dir\
• C:\dir\*.ex? – all files with extension .ex? in folder C:\dir\, where ?
can represent any one character
• C:\dir\test – only the file C:\dir\test
If you do not want the program to scan files in the subfolders of this
folder, uncheck Include subfolders when creating the mask.
3. Masks with relative file paths:
• dir\*.* or dir\* or dir\ – all files in all dir\ folders
• dir\test – all test files in dir\ folders
• dir\*.exe – all files with the extension .exe in all dir\ folders
• dir\*.ex? – all files with the extension .ex? in all C:\dir\ folders,
where ? can represent any one character
If you do not want the program to scan files in the subfolders of this
folder, uncheck Include subfolders when creating the mask.