Malware scan settings allow administrators to control how users interact with on-demand malware scans on the host endpoints. You can give users in your organization the ability to pause or cancel an on-demand malware scan running on their host endpoint.
The Pause setting allows you to set the maximum duration users are allowed to delay the start of an on-demand malware scan on their host endpoint. Valid values for the pause setting range from 1 to 48 hours (3600 to 172,800 seconds). Users can resume a paused scan before the full duration.
You can also configure the maximum number of pauses the user is allowed to enable on their endpoint. Valid values for the maximum number of pauses range from 1 to 100 times.
The Cancel settings allows users to terminate an on-demand malware scan actively running on their host endpoint. The malware scan settings are configurable through the Web UI or the API.
Note
You must enable malware detection (Signature and Heuristic Detections) and scheduled scans before configuring the on-demand malware scan settings. If malware detection and scheduled scans are disabled, the on-demand scan settings are ignored. See Enabling and Disabling Malware Detection and MalwareGuard and Managing On-Demand Malware Scans for more information.
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