It’s easy to wonder why your antivirus suite needs exceptions and whether they’re something you should set up. Excluding certain files from a virus scan might surely mean viruses can hide in your system, but allowing your antivirus to scan every file on your system is likely to lead to a terrible false flag sooner or later.
Why Do Antiviruses Have Scanning Exclusions?
You can stop your antivirus suite from scanning certain files and directories, but should you? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
