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Norton 2006 Can I get Norton to Ignore .mp3 files?

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Posted 22 November 2006 - 02:06 AM

I use Norton 2006 as my antivirus software and I have two questions:

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Is it possible to get Norton to ignore .mp3 and .jpg files while doing a full system scan? I have thousands of these files on my HD and I thought it would speed up the scan if it skipped these files.

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Is this a good idea? Can viruses attached themselves to existing .mp3 and .jpg files?

What I would like to do is have Norton ignore these files for my regular weekly full system scan and then run a complete scan once a month.

Thanks in advance.

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