Excluding the AC agent from anti-virus scanning in Endpoint Application Control (EAC) 2.0

- Updated:
- 27 Mar 2017
- Product/Version:
- Endpoint Application Control 2.0
- Platform:
- Windows All

Summary

Know what files and folders of the EAC agent can be excluded from anti-virus scanning. Adding these AC agent processes in the Real-time Scan exclusion can optimize the overall performance of the endpoint while reducing I/O resource utilization of the AC Agent when running an Inventory Scan of the system disk.

Details

Below is the list of the dynamic files and folders of the AC Agent that can be excluded from AV Realtime Scanning:

Folder Path
- AC Agent Database
  C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Endpoint Application Control Agent\ac_data
- AC Agent Logs
  C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Endpoint Application Control Agent\ac_logs
File and File Path
- Executables
  AcAgentScan.exe
  AcAgentService.exe
  AcAgentUI.exe
  C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Endpoint Application Control Agent\ac_bin\AcAgentUINotify.exe
- Kernel Drivers
  AcDriver.sys
  AcDriverHelper.sys