ehlo,
I am trying to determine what problems may occur by stacking my 1 centralized exceptions policy with a ton of exceptions.
I have a scenario of having to put alot of exceptions in and 90% of the exceptions will not apply to all hosts.
Specficially is there a performance hit by putting alot of items in exceptions list? I would imagine this would be less performance problem than actually having to scan the file(s).
Since I have no clear picture how how Symantec loads the exception list each time a scan is performed I am assuming it loads the exception list in memory and then checks that list against all files on the system about to be scanned, then skips those items. (As opposed to checking each individual file against the list DURING the actual scan.)
Anyone got any insight on this?
Thanks