About Exception files

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About Exception files

Occasionally antivirus programs detect a file as being infected with a virus when in fact there is no virus. This is because the binary pattern of the file is sufficiently similar to a real virus that the scan engine cannot distinguish the difference. This sometimes happens in Microsoft Word or Excel documents with complex macros.

In order to prevent false alarms or speed up the scanning process, you can configure PC-cillin to avoid scanning certain files. These are called scan exceptions.

See also:

About virus scan actions

About Real-time Scan

Adding Exception files

Adding Exception folders