Removable Drives Scan
You can configure scanning of removable drives connected to the protected device via a USB port.
Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Windows scans a removable drive using the On-Demand Scan task. The application automatically creates a new On-Demand Scan task when the removable drive is connected and deletes the task after the scanning is completed. The created task is performed with the predefined security level defined for removable drive scanning. You cannot configure the settings of the temporary On-Demand Scan task.
If you installed Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Windows without anti-virus databases, the removable drives scan will be unavailable.
Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Windows scans connected removable drives when they are registered as USB external devices in the operating system. The application does not scan a removable drive if the connection is blocked by the Device Control task. The application does not scan MTP-connected mobile devices.
Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Windows allows access to removable drives during scanning.
Scan results for each removable drive are available in the task log for the On-Demand Scan task created when the removable drive is connected.
You can change the settings of the Removable Drives Scan component (see the table below).
Removable Drives Scan settings
Setting | Default value | Description |
Scan removable drives on connection via USB | Cleared | You can turn on or turn off scanning of removable drive upon connection to the protected device via USB. |
Scan removable drives if its stored data volume does not exceed (MB) | 8192 MB | You can reduce the component's scope by setting the maximum volume of data on the scanned drive. Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Windows does not scan a removable drive if the volume of stored data exceeds the specified value. |
Scan with security level | Maximum protection | You can configure created On-Demand Scan tasks by selecting one of three security levels:
The algorithm used when infected, probably infected, and other objects are detected, as well as the other scan settings for each security level, correspond to the predefined security levels in the On-Demand Scan tasks.
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