User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

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Figure 12. Creating an exclusion rule
If you check both boxes at once, a rule will be created for that object with
a certain status according to Virus Encyclopedia threat type classification.
In such case, the following rules apply:
• If you specify a certain file as the Object and a certain status in the
Threat type section, the file specified will only be excluded if it is
classified as the threat selected during the scan.
• If you select an area or folder as the Object and the status (or
verdict mask) as the Threat type, then objects with that status will
only be excluded when that area or folder is scanned.
3. Assign values to the selected exclusion types. To do so, left-click in the
Rule description section on the specify link located next to the
exclusion type:
• For the Object type, enter its name in the window that opens (this
can be a file, a particular folder, or a file mask (see A.2 on pg. 304).
Check Include subfolders for the object (file, file mask, folder)
to be recursively excluded from the scan. For example, if you assign
C:\Program Files\winword.exe as an exclusion and checked the
subfolder option, the file winword.exe will be excluded from the
scan if found in any C:\Program Files subfolders.
• Enter the full name of the threat that you want to exclude from
scans as given in the Virus Encyclopedia or use a mask (see A.3 on
pg. 304) for the Threat type.
For some threat type, you can assign advanced conditions for
applying rules in the Advanced settings field (see A.3 on