Periodic Scan Options
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Periodic Scan Options
These Actions define which components of computers are scanned during the scheduled
malware scans.
Action Description
Periodically scan
system critical
areas only
The scheduled scan scans system critical areas, for example: the
operating system, processes, and memory. These are the targets of
most malicious programs.
Periodically scan
local hard-drives
The scheduled scan scans system critical areas and local drives.
Periodically scan
local and
removable drives
The scheduled scan scans system critical areas and local and
removable drives.
Double-click an Action to edit the Properties.
You can change:
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The exact scan targets.
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Files or folders that are excluded from scans.
Note - Files that a user scans with
Contextual scan
are always scanned, even if
they are excluded by type, or size, or are in this list of excluded files and folders.
A contextual scan is a scan that the user runs from the right-click menu of the
file that the user wants to scan: The user does a right-click on a file and selects
Scan with Check Point Anti-Malware.
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Skip archives and non executables - When selected, these types of files are not
scanned.
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Do not scan files larger than - Select the maximum size of files to be scanned.
This option applies to On Demand scans and Scheduled scans. It does not apply to
On Access scans.
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Configure files and folders exclusions - Click to configure specified file or
extensions to exclude.
Exclude Files and Folders from Scan
You can exclude the contents of trusted directories or files and specified trusted program
executables from the Anti-Malware schedules scan. You can also exclude all files of a
specified file extension.
For example, you might exclude these types of directories or programs from the scan:
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