Foreign Deity: NIS 2009 appears to have 3 separate options for exclusions: Scan Exclusions (under the Scan Exclusions section - the \System Volume Information\ is listed by default) Auto-Protect Exclusions (under the Scan Exclusions section) Security Risks Excluded from Scans (under the Signature Exclusions section) Do I need to add these exclusions to all three sections? I saw this solution posted in the "Fixes For Commmon Problems" in the Important Posts section of the forum, but I wasn't quite sure where to add them. When I posted this problem on the NIS 2009 forum (http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=62806), I was told that "When you run a scan, anything else monitoring in real-time will watch the scanning program as it accesses files. At best, this will cause an increase in the time needed to complete a scan. At worst, you'll get an application crash as the programs fight each other, using up system resources as they do so." If this assumption is correct (and and it seems logical given the large amount of memory that the NIS 2009 background scans are using on my system), I'm not sure that excluding these 3 MBAM executable files from NIS 2009 scans will solve the problem. I'm sorry if I'm getting ahead of myself here, but if I turn my MBAM realtime protection back on and my system crashes again, I'm worried that I might end up corrupting my OS or drivers.