Recommended Virus scan exclusions
General information
Provisioning Services Antivirus Best Practices
Citrix Guidelines for Antivirus Software Configuration
General exclusions
- Real-Time Scanning should only scan write-operations
- Real-Time Scanning should only scan local drives
- Scan On Boot ist turned off
- no virus scan entries in run-key
- no scan of Pagefiles
- no scan of Windows event logs
VDA exclusions
- Program Files\Citrix\User Profile Manager\UserProfileManager.exe
- Windows\system32\csrss.exe
- Windows\system32\winlogon.exe
- Windows\system32\userinit.exe
- Windows\system32\smss.exe
- Program Files\Citrix\Group PolicyClient-Side Extension\CitrixCseEngine.exe
- Program Files (x86)\Citrix\System32\wfshell.exe
- Windows\system32\spoolsv.exe
- Program Files (x86)\Citrix\system32\CpSvc.exe
- Program Files (x86)\Citrix\system32\CtxSvcHost.exe
- Windows\system32\spool