About Removable drives scan task

When the Removable drives scan task is running, the application scans a connected device and its boot sectors for viruses and other malware. The following removable drives may be scanned: CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, flash drives (including USB modems), external hard drives, and floppy disks.

On the start, the Removable drives scan task creates two tasks:

• Temporary on-demand scan task (ODS type) with default parameters of the Scan_File task. If necessary, a user with the administrator privileges can stop this task.
• Temporary Boot sector scan task (BootScan type) with default parameters. This task cannot be stopped.

If you change the Removable drives scan task parameters, new values are not applied to already running Scan_File and Boot_Scan tasks.

Stopping the Removable drives scan task does not stop already running Scan_File and Boot_Scan tasks.

Removable drives scan is stopped by default. You can start or stop the task at any time if necessary.

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