F Secure IS- Pre-install USB 3.0 HD question?

scottls1

I have tried several IS AV's, and have been unhappy with them!

 

I am looking at FSIS?-

I do my Macrium Reflect system backups to a 1TB USB 3.0 External HD.

I have several hundred MB of backups, from 2 computers on this HD, and if FS has to scan it first this could take quite some time...! 

 

My other AV's had an option to skip pre-scanning USB..., but I see another topic where they couldn't skip pre-scanning a flash drive.

Would this pre-scan include my External HD, and is there some way to disable? Or...?

Ukko

Hello,

 

There should not be "pre-scanning USB" (at least, as prevent/block using your drive);

 

But if you manually launch scan (or as "Full Scan") or there is real-time scanning at direct access to files - it possible that drive/files will be scanned there.

For such situation you able to use Exclusion lists:

https://help.f-secure.com/product.html#home/internet-security/2015/en/task_13205052E3D44C44BA2491A55A7F818F-internet-security-2015-en

 

There can be two different exclusion lists for real-time scanning and for manual scanning;

 

Or maybe you have certain F-Secure Internet Security build where another design? Build/version possible to re-check by:

- rightclick for tray-picture F-Secure;

- About -> first string ;

 

But if your external HD always connected to system - with some of meanings - good to keep ability scanning this part of filesystem (and maybe exclude only certain files or subdirectories with certain files)

 

Thanks!

Simon

I have three external USB drives, which contain a total of about 1.5Tb of data.  FS does not scan these drives on startup by default.