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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 malware protection processing. This list of MD5 hashes is part of the malware protection agent default policy.

There is no default. If no MD5 hashes are listed, all MD5 hashes are included in malware protection 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

Excluding MD5 hashes from malware protection processing is not recommended because it restricts the hashes that malware protection scans.

The Endpoint Security (HX) server does not validate the correct entry of the MD5 hashes included in your exclusion list. Confirm your MD5 hash exclusions are represented by 32 hexadecimal digits.

Change this setting using one of the following methods:

:
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