Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off.First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix.FBI smokes ransomware Hive after secretly buzzing around gang's network for months.Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers.Windows antivirus programs running on Windows servers can't detect such threats as viruses, malware, and spam that are distributed only via email. In addition, Windows antivirus programs can't replace email-based anti-spam and anti-malware tools, the company wrote.

Therefore, excluding these files from being scanned by the Windows antivirus program is very important.' 'This can cause severe failures in Exchange Server, and it might also generate 1018 event log errors. 'The biggest potential problem is a Windows antivirus program might lock or quarantine an open log file or database file that Exchange needs to modify,' Microsoft wrote in another post this week. A key reason an object is put on it is that having them scanned by the antivirus system could cause performance problems, errors, or crashes. There are still a lot of items on the Exchange server exclusion list.

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