# Question: Exclusions for AV-Software

2 messages from 2015-12-16 to 2015-12-16. Participants: roman@roume.de, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41016

## roman@roume.de, 2015-12-16 07:52

Subject: Question: Exclusions for AV-Software
Message-ID: <20151216085212.Horde.y-aVaMjyCCJdxOp8UpgKLg1@webmail.df.eu>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20151216085212.Horde.y-aVaMjyCCJdxOp8UpgKLg1%40webmail.df.eu

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Hello Git Team,
do you have any recommendations how exclusions must be set in an anti  
virus software what directories etc.?
when AV is running the re-base is slower than it should be.
Thanks for any Idea,
Regards
Roman

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2015-12-16 12:24

Subject: Re: Question: Exclusions for AV-Software
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In-Reply-To: <20151216085212.Horde.y-aVaMjyCCJdxOp8UpgKLg1@webmail.df.eu>

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Hi Roman,

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, roman@roume.de wrote:

> do you have any recommendations how exclusions must be set in an anti
> virus software what directories etc.?

If you are talking about a Git for Windows installed into C:\Program Files
(or even C:\Program Files (x86)), it is safe to exclude that location
(after an initial scan, of course) because Git for Windows itself does not
even have write permissions to that location.

Ciao,
Johannes

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