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Exclude Remote Files

BeaconLightBoy

I have a computer in a policy that has 'exclude remote files' set under windows exceptions.  Whenever i attempt to run a 'test virus file' on a network drive, it immediately is quarantined.  why is this?  I set it to exclude remote files.  so if i run a bad file off of a network drive, then it should run yes?

if i am wrong, then what good is this setting?  as every application or file you accessfrom the network is going to be loaded locally first.

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    so if i run a bad file off of a network drive, then it should run yes?

    I'd say in reality you wouldn't want this to happen :smileywink:. 

    Again, if it doesn't work as expected take a closer look at the log: Which threat has been reported, the file it has been detected in and the path. As two machines were involved (you didn't "loop back", did you?) - was Sophos running on the remote machine? Did you get the alert on the local machine where remote files had been excluded? Sorry if this is a dumb question. 

    Christian

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    so if i run a bad file off of a network drive, then it should run yes?

    I'd say in reality you wouldn't want this to happen :smileywink:. 

    Again, if it doesn't work as expected take a closer look at the log: Which threat has been reported, the file it has been detected in and the path. As two machines were involved (you didn't "loop back", did you?) - was Sophos running on the remote machine? Did you get the alert on the local machine where remote files had been excluded? Sorry if this is a dumb question. 

    Christian

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