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How safe to exclude touchpad drivers from anti-virus real time protection?
I'm experiencing intermittent "microfreezes" of touchpad pointer. Figured it might be my AV (Microsoft Security Essentials). I've had previous (and worse) experiences of my Synaptics touchpad not working properly under Avast! and Comodo CIS.So I'm thinking about adding the touchpad drivers to MSE exclusion list, and would like your feedback on possible security implications of doing so. If you have already done that, what have your experiences been? Do you have other general comments on pros and cons of excluding certain types of apps and/or drivers from AV real-time protection? (Such as your anti-spyware or firewall apps)
Thank you in advance for your input.
Desktop OS: Windows 8 x64 + 7 x64 sp1 x2 + XP sp3; Mobile OS: Android 4.0.4
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Want to send me a message? Send it to mimismum(at)myopera.com (not mimi_s_mum etc)
Looking for Opera 12.16 or earlier? Try
http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?custom=yes ,
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ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win
Unless these are drivers that connect to the Internet, update themselves etc. I don't see much harm in doing that. All virus scans do for me anyway is "catch" viruses and spam emails that'd never fool me anyway. It's rather annoying.
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