Exclude SharePoint Folders from Antivirus

In SharePoint servers, some of the SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server folders should be excluded from anti-virus protection in order to avoid performance hits!

such as: (C:\ may be other drive as well)

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Logs 
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Data.
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Bin
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service, 
• C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temp,
• etc.

There are many First party/third party products offers Antivirus plug-in for SharePoint:
https://www.microsoft.com/forefront/sharepoint/en/us/product-overview.aspx
https://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/portalprotect/index.html

https://vspug.com/bobbyhabib/2008/04/22/moss-anti-virus-guidelines/

Microsoft KB addressing this issue: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167
For SQL Server: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/309422
IIS: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/821749 

For SharePoint 2013, Exclude these folders from Anti-Virus: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167