Defining Abort Sites

Abort Sites are a list of the sites the virus scanner should completely ignore. Generally these are sites you can trust information from. This is done to improve performance by removing unnecessary virus scanning.

To add a new Abort Site select the New Abort Site option and enter in the URL of the site, selecting Define when finished. This new site will now appear on the list. The site can be deleted or edited by clicking on the URL of the site.

The local proxy server will always be listed here by default. Virus scanning first retrieves a requested file and stores it on the proxy server for scanning. If the proxy server is not listed here the virus scanner will not be able to access downloaded files and no scanning can take place.

• [NOTE:]It is a good idea to enter the Windows Update URL in here. Windows Update is known to have issues with virus scanners at the proxy/firewall level.

  These URLs are:

  • windowsupdate.microsoft.com
  • windowsupdate.com
  Which would be entered directly into the entry boxes.