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Configuring the Anti-Virus According to HOPEX Data
To optimize anti-virus activity and to avoid unnecessary slowdown, you must configure what should be managed or not by the anti-virus.
You must exclude the following files from anti-virus scanning:
 
 
Access mode
Location
File type
Program files external to HOPEX
Files used by HOPEX to display user interface elements in Web or Windows interfaces
Read
<ProgramData>\MEGA\
HOPEX Application Server
and sub-folders
Proprietary format:
*.mgs
(vectorial shapes in diagrams)
 
Public formats:
*.gif, *.ico and *.bmp
Full-text search indexes
Files used by the workstation or server executing the search
Reading by the workstation or node executing the search
 
Writing by the Administration station and by the server programming index creation
Proprietary format:
*.ix (indexes)
 
Public formats:
*.log and *.dat
 
Data cache
Files used by HOPEX to improve its performance
 
Read/Write
Public format:
*.mgc
Import/export files
Files generated or read during import/export/logical backup processes
Reading by the import function
 
Writing by export and logical backup functions
Selected by the user
Proprietary formats:
*.mgr, *.mgl, or *.xmg
MUST license
 
Note:
if the anti-virus does not allow such a configuration, allow Reading/Writing for all of the files on the license oath and sub folders.
Reading/Writing of the files on MUST license path and under this path
In the HAS console > Modules > Module Settings> MegasiteSettings, the pane to update the megasite.ini gives the MUST License path:
[must license]
path=
Public format:
*.ini
 
Proprietary formats:
*.tnk* and *.usr*
 
Reading of the files on MUST license path and under this path
Proprietary format:
*.must