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