Scan removable drives
This policy setting allows you to manage whether or not to scan for malicious software and unwanted software in the contents of removable drives such as USB flash drives when running a full scan. If you enable this setting removable drives will be scanned during any type of scan. If you disable or do not configure this setting removable drives will not be scanned during a full scan. Removable drives may still be scanned during quick scan and custom scan.
Scan packed executables
This policy setting allows you to configure scanning for packed executables. It is recommended that this type of scanning remain enabled. If you enable or do not configure this setting packed executables will be scanned. If you disable this setting packed executables will not be scanned.
Turn on heuristics
This policy setting allows you to configure heuristics. Suspicious detections will be suppressed right before reporting to the engine client. Turning off heuristics will reduce the capability to flag new threats. It is recommended that you do not turn off heuristics. If you enable or do not configure this setting heuristics will be enabled. If you disable this setting heuristics will be disabled.
Turn on e-mail scanning
This policy setting allows you to configure e-mail scanning. When e-mail scanning is enabled the engine will parse the mailbox and mail files according to their specific format in order to analyze the mail bodies and attachments. Several e-mail formats are currently supported for example: pst (Outlook) dbx mbx mime (Outlook Express) binhex (Mac). If you enable this setting e-mail scanning will be enabled. If you disable or do not configure this setting e-mail scanning will be disabled.
Turn on catch-up quick scan
This policy setting allows you to configure catch-up scans for scheduled quick scans. A catch-up scan is a scan that is initiated because a regularly scheduled scan was missed. Usually these scheduled scans are missed because the computer was turned off at the scheduled time. If you enable this setting catch-up scans for scheduled quick scans will be turned on. If a computer is offline for two consecutive scheduled scans a catch-up scan is started the next time someone logs on to the computer. If there is no scheduled scan configured there will be no catch-up scan run. If you disable or do not configure this setting catch-up scans for scheduled quick scans will be turned off.
Turn on catch-up full scan
This policy setting allows you to configure catch-up scans for scheduled full scans. A catch-up scan is a scan that is initiated because a regularly scheduled scan was missed. Usually these scheduled scans are missed because the computer was turned off at the scheduled time. If you enable this setting catch-up scans for scheduled full scans will be turned on. If a computer is offline for two consecutive scheduled scans a catch-up scan is started the next time someone logs on to the computer. If there is no scheduled scan configured there will be no catch-up scan run. If you disable or do not configure this setting catch-up scans for scheduled full scans will be turned off.
Scan archive files
This policy setting allows you to configure scans for malicious software and unwanted software in archive files such as . ZIP or . CAB files. If you enable or do not configure this setting archive files will be scanned. If you disable this setting archive files will not be scanned.
Check for the latest virus and spyware definitions before running a scheduled scan
This policy setting allows you to manage whether a check for new virus and spyware definitions will occur before running a scan. This setting applies to scheduled scans as well as the command line “mpcmdrun -SigUpdate” but it has no effect on scans initiated manually from the user interface. If you enable this setting a check for new definitions will occur before running a scan. If you disable this setting or do not configure this setting the scan will start using the existing definitions.
Specify the maximum percentage of CPU utilization during a scan
This policy setting allows you to configure the maximum percentage CPU utilization permitted during a scan. Valid values for this setting are a percentage represented by the integers 5 to 100. A value of 0 indicates that there should be no throttling of CPU utilization. The default value is 50. If you enable this setting CPU utilization will not exceed the percentage specified. If you disable or do not configure this setting CPU utilization will not exceed the default value.
Specify the maximum size of archive files to be scanned
This policy setting allows you to configure the maximum size of archive files such as . ZIP or . CAB that will be scanned. The value represents file size in kilobytes (KB). The default value is 0 and represents no limit to archive size for scanning. If you enable this setting archive files less than or equal to the size specified will be scanned. If you disable or do not configure this setting archive files will be scanned according to the default value.