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About exceptions
Exceptions are known security risks and processes you want to exclude from the
protection scans. In some cases, exceptions can reduce scan time and increase
system performance.
You specify exceptions in the Centralized Exceptions Policy.
Click Help for more information about configuring exceptions.
Table 13-7 lists the types of exceptions that you can exclude from the protection
scans.
Table 13-7
Exception types
DescriptionType
You can exclude the following security risks:
■ Known security risks
■ Files
■ Folders
■ Extensions
Security risk
exceptions
You can exclude processes from the TruScan proactive threat
scans. You can specify the action to take for a known process that
the TruScan proactive threat scans detect. You can force the
detection of a process.
TruScan proactive
threat scan exceptions
You can exclude files from Tamper Protection.
Tamper Protection provides real-time protection for Symantec
applications that run on the server and the client computers.
Tamper Protection prevents non-Symantec processes from
affecting Symantec processes.
See the Help on the client computer for more information about
Tamper Protection.
Tamper Protection
exception
You can use the Centralized Exceptions Policy to control the type of exceptions
that computer users can specify.
You can allow computer users to specify the following exceptions:
■ Security risk
■ File
■ Folder
■ Extension
125Managing protection scans
About exceptions