Virus Scan File Extensions

This section describes how to control which files are scanned. The default value, *, causes all files to be scanned. Because scanning all files may impact performance, you can designate a subset of files to scan.

For example, to scan only high-risk files, including zip files, but not files with names that match the pattern data-archive*.zip, you could configure the settings shown in the following table.

Table 3-61 Settings to Scan Only Specified High Risk File Types

Action	File Extension Pattern
`Scan`	exe
`Scan`	com
`Scan`	bat
`Scan`	doc
`Scan`	zip
`Don't Scan`	data-archive*.zip
`Don't Scan`	*

Use Don't Scan * to exclude all other file types not explicitly included in the scan list. A file named file.name.exe.bat.jpg123 would not be scanned, because only the jpg123 portion of the name, the extension, would be compared against the rules.

Do not use exclude settings before include settings. For example, do not use a Don't Scan * setting before Scan settings since that would exclude all file types that come after it.