When virus scans are there certain directories they skip?

[jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)]

It depends on the AV software and how it is configured. Many packages allow
for whitelisting files or directories so that they do not get scanned,
useful if you have a legitimate tool which is flagged as malicious. There's
no reason why malware could not try to subvert this behaviour to hide
themseleves if that's your line of thinking.

Jim

2009/8/21 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>

> Was thinking this afternoon, when anti-virus scans run, are there certain
> directories that they always skip?
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