How to Whitelist Salad in TotalAV

1. Open TotalAV

This will be the main screen you are presented within TotalAV and is your base of virus-fighting operations.

2. Navigate to Settings

To access the settings of TotalAV, click on the little gear icon situated on the upper right corner of the main screen.

3. Navigate to the Exclusion Setting

After you have navigated to your AV’s settings, you would see the exclusion setting at first. You will have to scroll down a tiny bit. To access your exclusion list, click on ‘Configure’ beside ‘Excluded paths within the quick and system scan’.

4. Adding an Exclusion

After clicking on ‘Configure’, you will be presented with your exclusion list. From there, click on ‘Add Folder’.

5. Adding Salad as an Exception

A new window will appear once you have clicked ‘Add Folder’ In that window, you’ll want to navigate to the Salad miner folder and select it, the path for this is “C:\ProgramData\Salad\workloads” and click ‘Ok’.

9. Click 'Ok'

Once you’ve found your Salad miner folder and clicked ‘Open’, hit ‘Ok’, and it will bring you back to the main TotalAV exclusion page with your newly added exclusion.

10. Run Salad

Open your Salad widget and click the play button. Contact support here if this issue persists.