Enabling Quarantine

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Important

Enabling quarantine may result in data loss when malware is blocked in an active process or file and malware protection terminates the process that started the infection.

To enable quarantine for all host endpoints:

Important

Signature and Heuristic Detection must be enabled before you can enable quarantine.

  1. Log in to the Web UI as an administrator.

  2. From the Admin menu, select Policies to access the Policies page.

  3. In the Policies table, click the Agent Default Policy link to access the Edit Policy page.

  4. Select the Malware Protection tab.

  5. Verify that the Signature and Heuristic Detection switch is ON.

    Policy_MalDetect_SH_Enable.png
  6. In the Quarantine section, toggle the Quarantine ON/OFF switch to ON.

    Policy_MalProtect_Quarantine_Enable.png
  7. Click Save.

To enable quarantine for selected host sets:

Note

See Creating a Custom Policy for more information about using the Web UI to create a custom policy.

  1. Log in to the Web UI as an administrator.

  2. From the Admin menu, select Policies to access the Policies page.

  3. In the Policies table, click the link for the custom policy you want to modify.

  4. Select the Malware Protection tab.

  5. Verify that the Signature and Heuristic Detection switch is ON.

    Policy_MalDetect_SH_Enable.png

    Important

    Signature and Heuristic Detection must be enabled before you can enable quarantine.

  6. In the Quarantine section, toggle the Quarantine ON/OFF switch to ON.

    Policy_MalProtect_Quarantine_Enable.png
  7. Click Save.

Now you can assign host sets to the custom policy and set the policy priority level. See Assigning Host Sets to Agent Policies and Configuring Policy Priority Using the Web UI for more information.