Understanding the Default Antimalware Policy

The default client antimalware policy is the policy applied to the client at initial client installation. The settings contained in this policy are broken into sections, each containing more configurable options as described below:

Scheduled Scans: Here (as shown in Figure 16.12) you can define whether to run scheduled scans on client computers, and if you run the scheduled scan the type of scan to perform: Quick or Full.

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Figure 16.12. Default Antimalware Policy.

A Full scan obviously takes longer to perform because it scans everywhere; a Quick scan runs faster but does not check every file on the ...

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