How To: Detect if McAfee Virus Scanner Exclusions are being applied?

Michael Carey

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Question: How can I detect if McAfee Virus Scanner Exclusions are being applied?

Answer:

  • Download ProcMon

  • Extract the downloaded files to a clean directory using WinZip or other file extraction utility.

  • Launch ProcMon.exe.

  • Select **Options **then Enable Advanced Output.

  • Create the relevant filter for McShield. For example, to filter for all READ actions by McShield, set Process Name IS McShield.exe and Operation CONTAINS IRP_MJ_READ