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Enabling and disabling quarantine and malware protection processing exclusions

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You can also optimize malware protection processing and performance on your host endpoints by globally applying the following quarantine exclusions to endpoints in your enterprise:

  • Exclude heuristic detections

  • Exclude adware

  • Exclude Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP)

  • Exclude spyware

When these exclusion are enabled, the Trellix Endpoint Security (HX) xAgent malware protection engine will not quarantine or protect the host endpoint from malware detected using heuristic detections, adware, PUP, or spyware.

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