Scan scope

Applied in local system and custom tasks:

• Scan at Operating System Startup: the entire protected device, excluding shared folders and autorun objects.
• Critical Areas Scan: the entire protected device, excluding shared folders and certain operating system files.
• On-Demand Scan (custom tasks): the entire protected device.
• Full Scan: a thorough scan of the protected device.

You can change the scan scope. The scan scope cannot be configured for the Removable Drives Scan and Application Integrity Control local system tasks.

Security settings

Common settings for the entire scan scope correspond to the Recommended security level.

For nodes selected in the protected device's file resource list, you can:

• Select a different predefined security level
• Manually change security settings

Use heuristic analysis

Applied with the Medium analysis level for Critical Areas Scan, Scan at Operating System Startup, On-Demand Scan and Full Scan tasks.

Heuristic Analyzer can be enabled or disabled and the analysis level can be configured.

Settings to start a task with specific permissions

The task is started under a system account.

You can edit settings to start tasks with specific account permissions for all system and custom On-Demand Scan tasks, except the Application Integrity Control task.

Perform task in background mode

Not applied

You can configure the priority level of On-Demand Scan tasks.

Consider task as Critical Areas Scan

Applied for On-Demand Scan, Scan at Operating System Startup, Critical Areas Scan and Full Scan tasks.

You can configure the priority level of On-Demand Scan tasks.

Do not run multiple scan tasks at the same time

Not applied

You can configure the priority level of On-Demand Scan tasks.

Task start schedule

Applied in local system tasks:

• Scan at Operating System Startup – After application startup.
• Critical Areas Scan, Application Integrity Control and Full Scan – Weekly.

You can configure the settings for scheduled task startup.