The pup key allows you to enable and disable the potentially unwanted programs (PUP) exclusion from Trellix Endpoint Security (HX) xAgent malware protection engine's quarantine and remediation actions. Valid values are true (enabled) or false (disabled).
When pup exclusion is enabled, the Trellix Endpoint Security (HX) xAgent malware protection engine does not quarantine or protect the host endpoint from PUP. By default, the pup key is disabled.
If you set the pup key value to true, you must also set the following key values to true:
malware Detection enable Key
Quarantine enable Malware Quarantine Key
Important
If these keys are not enabled, the
pupkey value is ignored.
Change this setting using one of the following methods:
Web UI (see Excluding Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) from Malware Protection Processing).
API custom configuration channels (see Using API Custom Configuration Channels).
Manually on individual endpoints using a text editor (see Modifying the Configuration File for a Single Endpoint).