Antivirus Protection

The Antivirus Protection profile configuration enables you to monitor files and applications on devices for potential virus infection. Scans can be configured from every two minutes to as much as once a month.

Important: If your SD card is mounted with a different name than sdcard, the antivirus program might not find viruses located in that directory.

Antivirus Whitelist

Click the Antivirus Whitelist button to open the Antivirus Whitelist dialog box in which you can add applications and files that you want to be whitelisted by the antivirus program.

General

Select the types of antivirus monitoring you want on devices, and the device filesystem location of quarantined items.


Enable Application Monitoring to scan applications that are installed or executed	Select this option to enable the scanning of installed applications for viruses. Applications are also scanned when they are launched. Select whether you want potentially infected applications to be moved to the quarantine folder or deleted.
Enable File System Monitoring to scan newly downloaded or modified files	Select this option to enable the scanning of newly downloaded or modified files for viruses. Select whether you want potentially infected files to be moved to the quarantine folder or deleted.
Quarantine File System Location on Device	Enter the filesystem location on devices where you want quarantined items to be stored.

Schedules

Set schedules for running antivirus scans, updating virus definitions, and emptying the antivirus quarantine.


Antivirus Scan Schedule	Opens the Schedule Entry dialog box in which you can specify how often you want to run antivirus scans on devices.
Definition Update Schedule	Opens the Schedule Entry dialog box in which you can specify how often you want to update virus definitions on devices.
Empty Quarantine Schedule	Opens the Schedule Entry dialog box in which you can specify how often you want to delete items that have been quarantined.