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title: Antivirus software and Docker
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description: General guidelines for using antivirus software with Docker
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keywords: antivirus, security
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When antivirus software scans files used by Docker, these files may be locked
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in a way that causes Docker commands to hang.
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One way to reduce these problems is to add the Docker data directory
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(`/var/lib/docker` on Linux, `%ProgramData%\docker` on Windows Server, or `$HOME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/` on Mac) to the
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antivirus's exclusion list. However, this comes with the trade-off that viruses
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or malware in Docker images, writable layers of containers, or volumes are not
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detected. If you do choose to exclude Docker's data directory from background
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virus scanning, you may want to schedule a recurring task that stops Docker,
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scans the data directory, and restarts Docker.
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