Perform Malware scanning
You can start the malware scanning to detect the malware.
- On left, click Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- On the Malware detection page, click Scan now .
- On the Malware scan page, select Standard Policy or Windows policy as applicable.
Note:
Search results would be updated based on the policy selection.
- From the Client table, select a client to scan.
- Click Next.
- On the Select the timeframe of backups verify the date and time range or update.
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According to selection criteria, scan gets initiated to maximum of 100 images.
- In the Select a malware scanner host pool, Select the appropriate host pool name.
- From the Select the malware scan result status for images to be scanned, select one of the following:
Not scanned
Not impacted
Impacted
All
- Click Scan now.
Note:
In scanning flow we select date range and other filters. After applying all filters first 100 images are scanned. If there are more images present, user have to again scan the images for same filter and add filter not scanned images.
Note:
One malware scanner that is scan host can initiate scan of three images at the same time.
- Once Scan initiated you can see Malware Scan Progress on Malware Detection, you can see the following fields:
Not scanned
Not impacted
Impacted
Failed
Note:
When we hover on failed status tool tip displays the reason of failed scan.
Note:
The backup images which failed in validation, are ignored. Malware scanning is supported for backup image stored on MSDP storage with instant access capability for the supported policy type only.