# Elasticsearch Antivirus Exclusions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 30, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-antivirus-exclusions/91394 "2017-06-30T09:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yaswanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/94ad74/32.png) [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-antivirus-exclusions/91394/1 "2017-06-30T09:18:12Z")
Hi Community, I have ES cluster which hosted in azure having 5 VM's . Due to recent Ransonware attacks i want to install Antivirus to our Vm's and wanted to know what are the paths that need to excluded from AV scanning ? Upto now i had excluded the data storage path that storage all my ES cluster data. Is any other thing that need to excluded ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![JKhondhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-antivirus-exclusions/91394/2 "2017-06-30T10:45:05Z")
Hi, Please consider any valuable directories that will be in regular use for reading and writing. At the time of writing see these directories: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/setup-dir-layout.html#setup-dir-layout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/setup-dir-layout.html#setup-dir-layout) for ideas. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-antivirus-exclusions/91394/3 "2017-07-28T10:45:15Z")
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