You can exclude a list of processes from malware protection for all of your host endpoints or for select host sets in your environment. Modify the to include a list of processes you want to exclude from malware protection for all of your host endpoints. Use a custom policy to exclude a list of processes from malware protection for select host sets in your environment.
Important
Malware protection process exclusions are supported on hosts using Trellix Endpoint Security (HX) xAgent version 24 or later only.
Excluding processes from malware protection processing is not recommended because it restricts the processes that malware protection scans.
This section covers how to use the Web UI to modify the to add or remove process exclusions from malware protection processing. See the Trellix Endpoint Security (HX) REST API Guide for more information about adding and removing process exclusions from malware protection processing.