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From: srinivasan s <[email protected]>
To: soumen rana <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anti virus scanning for Postgres database servers
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:17:03 +0530
Message-ID: <CAOEeMcUz6ar1wTVBpnOkugycBbta03GvNk4F5VguiDX8TYkOrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+nn5EVhtxMpoG64iKOMW2pSKEQGjpHbS3TiXg04HryXiETibg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+nn5EVhtxMpoG64iKOMW2pSKEQGjpHbS3TiXg04HryXiETibg@mail.gmail.com>

Microsoft defender locks the data files in the data directory during the
scans. Which created a problem for us in the past. You need to skip the
data directory from the Microsoft defender scans.

On Tue, 23 Sept, 2025, 2:51 am soumen rana, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The oganization I work for uses some postgres databases installed on Linux
> servers. The security team is planning to initiate Microsoft Defender Anti
> Virus scanning on these servers in an "Active" mode.
>
> This will mean that the Postgres Installation directories and files will
> be scanned by Microsoft Defender and quarantine any threats.
>
> We have requested to exclude the data directories from the Antivirus
> scanning.
> Is anyone aware of any performance,  operational, or data-loss related
> challenges with Anti Virus scanning of Postgres binaries?
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>
> Greetings,
> Soumen Rana
>
>

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