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On this page you can specify parameters that Scanner is use for file checking on the protected station.

Scanner can react to the following events:

Infected—scanned file contains a known virus

Suspicious—scanned file marked as suspicious

Adware—scanned file contains an adware

Dialers—scanned file contains a dialer

Jokes—scanned file contains a joke program

Riskware—scanned file contains a riskware

Hacktools—scanned file contains a hacktool.

For these events, the following actions are allowed:

Cure, move to quarantine if not cured—instructs to restore the original state of the object before infection. If the object is incurable, or the attempt of curing fails, this object is moved to quarantine. The action is available only for objects infected with a known virus that can be cured except for Trojan programs and files within complex objects.

Cure, delete if not cured—instructs to restore the original state of the object before infection. If the object is incurable, or the attempt of curing fails, this object is deleted. The action is available only for objects infected with a known virus that can be cured except for Trojan programs and files within complex objects.

Move to quarantine—this action moves a detected threat to the Quarantine that is isolated from the rest of the system.

Delete—It is the most effective way to remove all types of threats. This action implies full deletion of a dangerous object.

Report—notify user on a detected threat.

Also the following advanced parameters are presented:

Automatically apply actions to threatsif the check box is cleared, Scanner only notifies the user on threat detection and user must determine the necessary action for the file.

Archivesinstructs Scanner to scan the contents of archives. If the check box is cleared, the archive file structure are scanned by Scanner anyway, but enclosed files are excluded from scans.

Email filesinstructs Scanner to scan the contents of email files (email messages, mailboxes, etc.). If the check box is cleared, the email file structure are scanned by Scanner anyway, but enclosed files are excluded from scans.