{"id":4422,"date":"2026-06-08T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4422"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:52:51","slug":"do-deepguard-exclusions-accept-windows-environment-variables-or-wildcards-when-the-exclusion-is-created-through-withsecure-policy-manager","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/do-deepguard-exclusions-accept-windows-environment-variables-or-wildcards-when-the-exclusion-is-created-through-withsecure-policy-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Do DeepGuard exclusions accept Windows environment variables or wildcards when the exclusion is created through WithSecure Policy Manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Do DeepGuard exclusions accept Windows environment variables or wildcards when the exclusion is created through WithSecure Policy Manager?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>DeepGuard exclusions for WithSecure Client Security, Server Security and Email and Server Security products support wildcards for DeepGuard exclusions. Follow these steps to create an exclusion using a wildcard:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log into Policy Manager Console<\/li>\n<li>Select a host or policy domain from the domain tree<\/li>\n<li>Go to the\u00a0<b>Settings\u00a0<\/b>tab and select <b>Standard view<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<b>Real-time scanning\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Scroll down and enable\u00a0<b>Do not scan the following files and applications\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<b>Add\u00a0<\/b>and select\u00a0<b>Folder path<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Enter the folder path, for example:\u00a0<b>*\\examplefolder\\subfolder\\*\u00a0<\/b>and click\u00a0<b>OK<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Distribute the policy (Ctrl + D)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>More examples can be found in the following F-Secure Community article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.f-secure.com\/business-suite-en\/kb\/articles\/5665-using-wildcards-in-exclusions-in-real-time-scanning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/community.f-secure.com\/business-suite-en\/kb\/articles\/5665-using-wildcards-in-exclusions-in-real-time-scanning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do DeepGuard exclusions accept Windows environment variables or wildcards when the exclusion is created through F-Secure Policy Manager?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4422","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005720","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:52:51","import_hash":"4f1c32814f1990de4c0bc45754c3cb33617875bd","vanilla_article_id":32506,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32506-do-deepguard-exclusions-accept-windows-environment-variables-or-wildcards-when-the-exclusion-is-created-through-withsecure-policy-manager","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}