Exclude certain files or websites from scanning in AVG AntiVirus

 

You can exclude files and websites, that you know they are not infected and you  may want to exclude certain files or websites from scanning to speed up your scans and as well as device speed also.

 While it is mostly not recommended, course to avoid false positive detections.

So, set exceptions only. If you are not sure about a file, you can scan it with VirusTotal, or add the file to Quarantine for submitting it to the AVG Threat Labs.

 Using Quarantine in AVG AntiVirus

Quarantine is a place in AVG Internet Security and AVG AntiVirus for safe storing potentially harmful files and then completely isolating them away from the rest of your operating system files and folders. Files inside Quarantine that cannot be accessed or run by any outside processes, software applications, or viruses.

Move files to Quarantine

AVG automatically moves malicious or infected files to Quarantine, if they are not able  to repair them. And you can also add manually unknown, doubt, or specious files to AVG Quarantine area and then you can send them for analysis to AVG by below steps.

Open the AVG user interface and then go to Menu, and then click on Quarantine.

On the Quarantine window, now click Add File.

Now, locate the file via selecting them, that you want to move to the Quarantine area.

Now those files will appear in Quarantine and can be sent for analysis to AVG.com/activate

Restore files from Quarantine

NOTE: One thing, restoring files from the Quarantine area is a high security risk. This action is required by advanced knowledge users, so they intended for specific situations because, if a critical system file is moved to Quarantine they can take suitable action.

Return a file to its original location

This action will restore the file to its original location on your Computer. AVG recommends to use this option only if you are fully trusting them that the file is safe from malware.

Open the AVG Quarantine area

Select by tick the box to the relevant files in Quarantine.

Now click the three dots icon next to Delete all or select Restore from the context menu.

Then Click Close in the confirmation dialog box that appears.

Return a file to a new location

This option will restore the file to a location on your computer that you specify destination. AVG.Com/Activate recommends to use this option, if aware that the file is safe from malware.

Tick the box next to the relevant file in Quarantine, or optionally tick the box next to Threat name to select all files.

Click the … icon (three dots) next to Delete all and select Extract from the context menu.

Select a location where the file will be restored, then click OK.

Click Close in the confirmation dialog that appears.