Scanning the virtual machine

Protected virtual machines that have the Light Agent for Linux component installed can employ the following tasks that can be managed from the command line:

• Full scan – thorough scan of the protected virtual machine's operating system, including system memory, startup objects, boot sectors, and all hard drives, removable drives and network drives.
• Custom scan - a scan of user-selected objects on the protected virtual machine.

You can perform the following actions from the command line, to start and configure scan task settings:

• Start full scan task for all objects of the protected virtual machine's file system.
• Start custom scan task, defining the scan task scope.
• Configure scanning of compound files.
• Specify the action that is performed by the application on detection of an infected file.
• Configure the usage of iChecker scanning technology.
• Configure advanced settings for scan tasks.

Please note the special considerations when scanning hard links and symbolic links.