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excludedMD5s Key

  • Published on Sep 8, 2026
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The excludedMD5s key lists the MD5 hashes to be excluded from Exploit Guard processing. This list of MD5 hashes is part of the Exploit Guard global policy.

There is no default. If no MD5 hashes are listed, all MD5 hashes are included in Exploit Guard processing.

MD5 hashes should be listed as a sequence of 32 hexadecimal digits, within quotation marks ("), and separated by commas. The full list of files should be enclosed in brackets ([]). For example:

"excludedMD5s": [
    "c8a9dab8f7cdec707eba6deca3448ba8",
    "c2f5bbc927532092da5bfbb5ef839308"
]

Important

The Endpoint Security (HX) server does not validate the MD5 hash entries included in your Exploit Guard exclusion list. You must confirm your MD5 hash exclusions are represented by 32 hexadecimal digits.

Change this setting using one of the following methods:

:
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