AV exclusions on Softwaredistribution folder

Throwing an idea out there. Is there any benefit to excluding the
%windir%\softwaredistribution folder from AV scanning? The risks are
somewhat obvious, but does anyone know of any malware/spyware/virii taking
advantage of this folder?

Steve

I feel I may need to clarify

Using WinXP and 2K, manually updating, the scan process appears to take a
long amount of time. My theory was that if the softwaredistribution
folder was excluded from Antivirus Scanning it may speed it up? Any
thoughts?

Steve

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:49:51 +1000, steven <>
wrote:

> Throwing an idea out there. Is there any benefit to excluding the
> %windir%\softwaredistribution folder from AV scanning? The risks are
> somewhat obvious, but does anyone know of any malware/spyware/virii
> taking advantage of this folder?
>
> Steve

Steve,

I am unaware of any malware *** as of yet *** that attempts to hide or
run itself from that folder. Not having it scanned by an AV should not
be much of a security risk and in fact, may actually help out if one has
issues installing updates.
I've always suspected certain security suites/AVs as being the cause of
data corruption in SoftwareDistribution or, preventing Access to it
due to a Permissions issue.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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steven wrote:

> I feel I may need to clarify
>
> Using WinXP and 2K, manually updating, the scan process appears to take
> a long amount of time. My theory was that if the softwaredistribution
> folder was excluded from Antivirus Scanning it may speed it up? Any
> thoughts?
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:49:51 +1000, steven
> <> wrote:
>
>> Throwing an idea out there. Is there any benefit to excluding the
>> %windir%\softwaredistribution folder from AV scanning? The risks are
>> somewhat obvious, but does anyone know of any malware/spyware/virii
>> taking advantage of this folder?
>>
>> Steve
>
>