Scan Settings Tab
Configure the following settings:
Cleanup Actions
Select the default actions for infected files:
• Clean/Quarantine – when a threat is detected, attempt to disinfect the file and quarantine if unsuccessful. If the file could not be disinfected, it will be quarantined and will not be deleted.
• Clean/Delete – when a threat is detected, attempt to disinfect the file and delete if unsuccessful. If the file could not be disinfected, it will be deleted from the computer.
• Delete items from quarantine that are older than – specify the number of days to retain items in quarantine. The default is 3 days.
Scan Schedule
• Quick Scan – Click the Edit icon for Quick Scan. Configure the following options and click Update.
> Enable Quick Scan – select the checkbox to enable Quick Scan.
> Start – specify the start time.
> Stop – specify the end time. The maximum duration between the Start time and Stop time is 23.59 hours. The scan ends if all the files are scanned before the Stop time. If the scan is not complete before the Stop time, it is aborted at the Stop time. Alternatively, select When scan is complete to ensure that scan is completed.
> Days – select the days when the scheduled Quick Scan will take place.
• Deep Scan – Click the Edit icon for Deep Scan. Configure the following options and click Update.
> Enable Deep scan- select the checkbox to enable Deep Scan.
> Start – specify the start time.
> Stop – specify the end time. The maximum duration between the Start time and Stop time is 23.59 hours. The scan ends if all the files are scanned before the Stop time. If the scan is not complete before the Stop time, it is aborted at the Stop time. Alternatively, select When scan is complete to ensure that scan is completed.
> Days – select the days when the scheduled Deep Scan will take place.
Scan Options
• Randomize scheduled scan start times by x minutes – specify the number of minutes. The scheduled scan start time is randomized to reduce the impact on network traffic. This might impact the network traffic if the scan for multiple systems start at the same time.
Missed scan options at start-up: Select one of the following options on how a scan will be performed if the computer was not ON during a scheduled scan:
• Do not perform quick scan – select this option if you do not want to perform quick scan on startup.
• Perform quick scan approximately x minutes after start-up – specify the number of minutes after start-up when Faronics Anti-Virus must perform a quick scan.
• Prompt user to perform quick scan – select the option to prompt user to perform a quick scan.
Scan Exceptions
Folders or files that are known to the safe and free of infections can be added to the Scan Exceptions. Files added to the Scan Exceptions will always be scanned by Faronics Anti-Virus. However, Faronics Anti-Virus will never report the files as malicious or infected. This feature is useful since files and folders that are known to be safe by the Administrator will not be reported as malicious.
1. Click Add Exception.
2. In the Add dialog, select File by full path, or Entire folder. Click Browse to select the file or folder and click OK.
3. The File by full path is added to the Scan Exceptions.
Advanced Options
For each type of scan, select the following options (some options may be grayed out depending on the type of scan):
• Enable rootkit detection – detects if the computer is infected with a rootkit.
• Scan inside archives – scans the contents of a zip file. Select for the scan to include archive files, such as .RAR and .ZIP files. When a .RAR file is found to contain an infected file, the .RAR file will be quarantined. If a .ZIP file is found to contain an infected file, the infected file is quarantined and replaced by a .TXT file with text indicating that it was infected and that it has been quarantined. Specify the File Size Limit.
• Exclude removable drives (e.g USB) – excludes the removable drives from the scan process. Any external hard disks, USB drives etc will not be scanned.
• Scan Registry – scans the registry for threats.
• Scan Running Processes – scans all running processes on the computers.
• Restore Defaults – click Restore Defaults if you want to restore all the default settings for the Advanced Options.
USB Devices
• Scan USB drives upon insertion – select this option to scan USB drives upon insertion and select one of the following options:
• Interrupt active scan for USB scan – select this option to interrupt an active scan to scan the USB drive when it is inserted. Once the active scan is interrupted, it will not resume automatically and must be restarted manually.
• Do not perform USB scan if another scan is already in progress – select this option to ensure that an active scan is not interrupted when a USB drive is inserted. The USB drive must be manually scanned once the active scan is complete.
• Suppress USB scan in progress dialogue – select this option to hide indications that Anti-Virus is scanning USB drives when they are inserted; no Anti-Virus interface will open, and the system tray icon will not display tooltips indicating a scan in progress. Users will be notified at the end of a scan if a virus was found, but if no viruses were detected there will be no notification that the scan occurred.
Note that if the Scan USB drives upon insertion option is not selected, this option is ignored.