Enabling Remediation Actions for MalwareGuard

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Follow the instructions in this section to create a custom policy that enables remediation actions for MalwareGuard processing and assigns the policy to all of your host endpoints or select host sets in your environment.

To create a custom policy for MalwareGuard processing:

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

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

  3. Click Create a Custom Policy to go to the Create Policy page.

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  4. Enter a policy name in the Name field and a policy description in the Description field.

  5. Click CATEGORIES to access a list of the policy categories.

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  6. Select the Malware Protection checkbox and click Apply

To enable the quarantine actions for MalwareGuard setting in your custom policy:

  1. In the Malware Detection section, toggle the Signature and Heuristic Detection ON/OFF switch and the MalwareGuard Detection ON/OFF switch to ON.

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    Important

    You must enable malware detection (Signature and Heuristic Detection) before you enable MalwareGuard.

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

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    Important

    You must enable MalwareGuard Detection and Quarantine before you enable remediation actions for MalwareGuard.

  3. Locate Quarantine Actions and select the Quarantine Malicious Archives option to enable quarantine actions for MalwareGuard processing.

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  4. Click Save.

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