How does everyone handle exclusions?

[NickFerrar]

Most of the people where I work are developers and McAfee on-access scanning seems to choke a lot of Oracle and Java areas (scan timed out errors), which causes the PC to hang for several seconds each time.

Firstly - is this normal? I've tried adjusting the scan time out settings but this doesn't seem to help. I guess it's just the nature of some of the files in the area?

Secondly - as a partial solution I've started excluding certain folders from scans but it's too much of a managment overhead to do this on a per-computer basis so I'm left with doing at at the Workstation group level that all the desktops are in - however it's going to end up needing so many exclusions in place it will reduce the effectiveness of the scanning.

Is there any neat solution I'm missing?

 

[NickFerrar]

Related to this the on-access scanning is currently set to scan all files, I'm considering changing this to "Default + Selected file types" however I can't seem to find out what the default types are.

The VS 7.1 product guide mentions the default exclusions are as per the DAT file and on page 68 of the guide it has a screenshot of the additional file types dialog box that shows a list of default file types + user-added ones, however when I go into additional file types on the 3.01 ePO it's a much simpler dialog box with no files currently listed (as in it only seems to display user-added file types).

Anyone know if there's a way to check in the ePO what the default file types to be scanned are?