Exclude some type of files that can’t be infected…I don’t know…maybe mpg, jpg, mp3… if I reinstall NOD32 or kaspersky I don’t remember, maby I can send you the list of file type to exclude from scanning to win time when Computer is fully scanned…
Just any type of exclusion would work for me…
Comodo’s exclusion list doesn’t actually exclude anything. It merely ignores any alerts on excluded files.
I don’t know if we talk about same thing…
Exclusion List: that list of file that antivirus alert ast virus, and u know that is not a virus and you exclude it of future scaning an detecting…
I sad about exclusion list made by comodo to type of file that can’t be infected, like I sad: .mp3; .mpg…and others…it’s a normaly thing for all antiviruses for faster scaning…
There are loads of infected mp3/wmv etc files out there… they abuse bug’s in for example Windows Media Player, if you load such an infected file… If the scanner is light and fast you don’t need to exclude it…
Are you having performance issues with these files ?
I have my entire CD collection on my computer. If I could tell Comodo not to scan my music folder (.mpc files, not .mps) and a couple game folders (Like Microsoft Flight Simulator) I could save 30+GB of scanning overhead. So I guess you could call that a performance issue…
you can tell it that, go to the av tab, click on av configurations and add the folders to the exclude list.
Try it…
Files on the exclusion list are still scanned. I’ve yet to see a post from the devs as to whether the list is operating as intended and they simply don’t know the actual definition of the word exclude, or if it is in fact broken currently.
The only thing that is actually excluded, is a detection alert if there was a detection when the file was scanned. In other words, the exclusion list is actually just an ignore list.
HeffeD,
I think it’s a discussion about the text not about the design goal.
It’s designed to be excluded from alerts not from scanning.
But i agree i would also wish for a real “exclude from scan” option/list to prevent massive overhead scans.
On the other hand you could create a special scan profile and leave those large folders out.
Added a poll and voted :-TU
Just to have an exclude option, not necessarily for “non infectable files”.
If that is the intended use, they should rename the list to Ignore List. As it stands, anyone who understands English is going to expect anything put in the Exclusion List to not be included in the scan as that is what exclude means. (As has been shown by the reply languy99 and replies stating the same thing in other threads…)
I vote for the real exclusion option. :-TU+
+1
I’ll take both, please. 
False positives exist and probably always will. Alternately, their are some files / folders that you just don’t want scanned. So both an Ignore List (scanned, but no pop-up) and an Exclude List (never scanned) are useful.