I'm trying to set the scan/protection exclusions in NAV 2006 (workstation only version) for REV*.LK and REV*.OV but the stupid preferences editor keeps telling my I can't use special characters in a path name even though the defaults has couple of *.ext files defined.

Does anybody know how to get around this? Regedit maybe? Nothing to be found in Symantec's KB or Googling.

Warren,

Not sure about NAV as I do not use this product. As a general "rule of thumb" I try to stay away from anything with Symantec…but I digress. I picked up something from your question. You mention in the error that it is complaining about the use of wildcards in the path. Perhaps there is another section where it will allow you to put files and not just paths. Otherwise you will have to put all the paths where rev files could exist.

John

Warren,

I can't speak to NAV, but the reported error makes sense. The program is saying that it can exclude files from checking by their implicit file type extension, but not by partial name searches. Try using *.LK and *.OV instead of REV*.LK and REV*.OV.

Gerald

I tried that, no dice.

There's only the one place to enter files/paths. I can enter a specific file name in there, just no wildcards. Somebody screwed the pooch on the pattern checking as earlier versions let you use wildcards.

Hopefully these exclusions are stored in the registry and I can add them with regedit.

Maybe you could just exclude the whole OpenInsight folder and it's subfolders. That is what I do.

Using an anti-virus sofware on a database product is very exhaustive. So I do not use anti-virus software on the database folders… since those folders are backed up.

That's what I ended up doing, however the helps says exclusions don't apply to network drives so what use is it?

Generally speaking, client Antivirus software usually don't scan network drives although some do have this as an option. What companies will do is install Antivirus on the server and just exclude Revelation files there. Then you shouldn't have to worry about it on the client.

John

The NAV docs were unclear whether or not network drives are scanned or autoprotected. And I could find no setting to exclude/include networked drives. Just to be on safe side I excluded the ARev folders. It's easier just to exclude by filename with wildcards since the mapping changes depending on application but so it goes. The helps say to enter a path or filename and the default file exclusions use wildcards so one would assume you could use wildcards too.

Symantec seems to be getting more and more generic (and ultimately less useful) with each release.

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