Using wildcards in exclusions for manual scanning This article provides information on how to exclude files from manual scanning in F-Secure Anti-virus products using wildcard characters.
About syntax in wildcards
The syntax used in exclusions differs between F-Secure products depending on whether the product is an older or newer version.
- Older product versions: Server Security 12.x, Email and Server Security 12.x, and Client Security 12.x, and their premium versions.
- Newer product versions: Client Security 13.x, Client Security 14.x, and their premium versions.
What to remember:
- For older product versions, use double backslashes: "
\\" (used as an escape character). All slashes in the path need to be typed out twice in this way. The path is not case-sensitive. - Use only drive letters; for example:
C:\*\eicar.com (newer product versions) C:\\*\\eicar.com (older product versions)
- If you use a single character wildcard
?, always start the exclusion with an asterisk; for example: *\eica?.com (newer product versions) *\\eica?.com (older product versions)
Note: The older format with double backslashes works in both older and newer product versions. The newer format with single backslashes only works in newer product versions, however.