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"Scan Flash Drive" does not let me stop scanning just the recycle bin. It gives the option of stopping scanning of the drive all together, which will prevent scanning of the regular folders and files on the drive. Using that option is like firing a cannon to kill a fly.

I have gone back and made the "exception" settings as shown in these screen captures. Unfortunately, Bitdefender still started scanning the portable drive's Recycle Bin.

I followed the steps Scott wrote. However, I was not able to disable the Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) because the switch is greyed out. I have attached two screen captures. One shows the greyed out toggle switch of the ATD. The other one shows the exclusions that I added.

The "Exclude from scanning" setting for the F:\Recycle Bin was the only exclusion I had. Now, I added the entire F:\ drive (WD My Passport portable drive) to the Exceptions list. Next, I unplugged the portable drive and plugged it back in. Within moments, Bitdefender began scanning it. So, for some reason, the exceptions…

Thank you. I submitted my question to the support staff. I shall share any solution that I find to work.

After I reconnect the portable drive to my computer and Bitdefender launches to scan it, I check the settings for exceptions and see that the path to the Recycle Bin of the portable drive still displays. Is that not enough to make Bitdefender skip scanning the Recycle bin of the portable drive?

I want Bitdefender to NOT scan the recycle bin only of the portable drive. I do want the other files to be scanned.

I had asked how to disable scanning of NOT the Recycle Bin on the C drive, but of the same bin on a portable external drive that I plug in to my computer at times. Anyway, the same steps that you gave, worked to disable scanning of the Recycle Bin on the portable drive. Thank you.

One example of a website being blocked is University of Houston Downtown. The address is https://www.uhd.edu/. I tried to open the link from Google search. The browser I am sandboxing is Firefox. To check of Sandboxie will behave differently with a different browser, I changed my default browser to Chrome. Still ran into…