Forensics Monitoring Exclusions

You can exclude these elements from monitoring:

  • Process - To exclude an executable by element, MD5 and signer.

  • Certificate - To exclude processes based on the company that signs the certificate.

Syntax:

  • Process can be excluded by name only, or by full path.

    For example C:\Program Files\MyTrustedDirectory\excludeMe.exe

  • Full path can contain environment variables.

  • Full path CANNOT contain wildcards.

  • Certificate

    • Microsoft

  • md5:0123456789012345

    • Exclude a process by hash.

  • Excluding a Certificate / Process means that files modified / created by a certain process will not be backed up, or monitored by Anti-Ransomware and Behavioral Guard.

Example Supported/Unsupported Description
C:\Program Files\MyTrustedDirectory\* Not supported Excludes all the processes under MyTrustedDirectory
C:\Program Files\MyTrustedDirectory\excludeMe.exe Supported Excludes the excludeMe.exe under MyTrustedDirectory
excludeMe.exe Supported Process can be excluded by name only.
Note:

Supported but recommended to be used together with Certificate and/or MD5.

%ProgramFiles%\MyTrustedDirectory\excludeMe.exe Supported Full path can contain environment variables.
Note:

Supports only for System Environment Variables (not user Environment Variables).

C:\*\process.exe Not supported Full path cannot contain wildcards.