# Which folders should be excluded in case of any Endpoint protection client?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-folders-should-be-excluded-in-case-of-any-endpoint-protection-client/27724>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [August 20, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-folders-should-be-excluded-in-case-of-any-endpoint-protection-client/27724 "2015-08-20T05:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-folders-should-be-excluded-in-case-of-any-endpoint-protection-client/27724/1 "2015-08-20T05:23:46Z")

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Hi,

If I want to install any antivirus/malware EndPoint protection client on any of my ELK stack windows servers, which folders should I exclude?

I am using two Windows Server 2012 R2 servers. One is for Logstash and other is for Elasticsearch and Kibana.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-folders-should-be-excluded-in-case-of-any-endpoint-protection-client/27724/2 "2017-07-06T13:48:32Z")

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