The following antivirus exclusions are recommended for UNICOM Intelligence products. Configuring the antivirus exclusions verifies any files that are required by UNICOM Intelligence, are not locked or modified by the antivirus software.

UNICOM Intelligence performance might also be improved by implementing the following antivirus exclusions. These guidelines apply to both real-time and on-demand antivirus scanning.

It is important to reach a balance between a secure server antivirus configuration (that does not cause reliability issues) and performance degradation. It is recommended that any antivirus exclusions be tested in a test environment, and then subjected to the maximum expected load in a production environment.

The following locations are based on the default and installation locations. If your installation paths are not the default paths, you must change the antivirus exclusion locations.

*.chj (cache files) are in:

The local alternative location in the following path:

The Export activity's temporary output files are in the following path:

*.tmp (log files) are in the logs directory:

*.xml: The files that contain survey tables data in XML format are in:

The folder and its subfolders contains survey metadata (MDD Survey metadata) and other file types, and is in:

*.dll, *.config, *.asx: Antivirus software scanning of these directories might cause an application restart (the application domain reloads):

(The directory C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SPSSMR\Temp can be scanned)