exclude option appears to be ignored

[bcraigie]

Hello and thanks for a great wee scanner.

The --exclude option appears to be ignored on Windows, or acts strangely.

I want to ignore the System Volume Information folder on the D drive as it is inaccessible to mere mortals. I've tried:

--exclude "D:\System Volume Information"

I also tried it with single quotes, tried it without the D:\

It just gets ignored and scanned anyway (with an access denied error of course).

Also, if you try

--exclude "D:\System Volume Information\"

(ie with a \ at the end of the path to be exluded), the scan finishes straight away without scanning anything, and with no error.

Am I misunderstanding the syntax of the --exclude parameter?

I am ensuring that the path to be scanned is last on the line (actually the path to be scanned is simply d:\ )

For example (run from an administrative Powershell):

.\local-spring-vuln-scanner.exe --quiet --exclude "D:\System Volume Information" --log "mylogfile.log" d:\

Thanks.