Adding an exclusion to the Trusted Zone

To manually add an exclusion to the Trusted Zone via the Application Console:

  1. In the Application Console tree, open the context menu of the Kaspersky Security node.
  2. Select the Configure Trusted Zone settings menu option.

    The Trusted Zone window opens.

  3. Select the Exclusions tab.
  4. Click the Add button.

    The Exclusion window opens.

  5. In the Object will not be scanned if the following conditions are met section, specify the objects that you want to exclude from the protection / scan scope and objects that you want to exclude among detectable objects:
    • If you want to exclude an object from the protection or scan scope:
      1. Select the Object to scan check box.
      2. Click the Edit button.

        The Select an object window opens.

      3. Specify the object that you want to exclude from the scan scope.

        When specifying the objects, you can use names masks (via ? and * characters) and all types of environment variables. The resolving of environment variables (replacing variables with their values) is performed by Kaspersky Security for Windows Server when starting a task, or when applying new settings to a running task (not applicable to On-Demand Scan tasks). Kaspersky Security for Windows Server resolves environment variables under the account used to start the task. For more information on environment variables, refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

      4. Click OK.
      5. Select the Apply also to subfolders check box, if you want to exclude all child files and folders of the specified object from the protection or scan scope.
    • If you want to specify the name of a detectable object:
      1. Select the Objects to detect check box.
      2. Click the Edit button.

        The List of objects to detect window opens.

      3. Specify the name or name mask of the detectable object according to the Virus Encyclopedia classification.
      4. Click the Add button.
      5. Click OK.
  6. In the Exclusion usage scope section, select the check boxes next to the names of the tasks to which the exclusion should be applied.
  7. Click OK.

The exclusion is displayed in the list on the Exclusions tab of the Trusted Zone window.

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