> --On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:31 AM -0500 Michael Stowe
> <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:
>
>>> So which free AV's offer a way to exclude a process?
>>
>> At least that's an easy question:  none of them.
>
> MSE seems to have the feature:
>
> <http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/set-microsoft-security-essentials-to-exclude-a-process/>

You are incorrect, sir.

That refers to MSE not scanning the process itself, not any files that
process may read or write.

> I was hoping that Avast and Immunet (with ClamAV) would have this feature.

They *also* lack the feature you describe, which you may recall I
characterized as "unwise."  Once a file is read into memory, there's
nothing preventing it from being executed, so most AVs do not make the
distinction.  (There is a class of professional AVs that do, largely
because they make use of pseudo-execution, virtual machines or jails. 
Free solutions, and most commercial solutions, do not.)

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