Endpoint Protection

Hy,

I would like to know if someone use the network scan ( Antivirus & Spyware Policies => File System Auto Protect  => Network Settings) and get some informations please.

Is this option is efficient ? If i check "Trust files on remote computers running Auto-Protect", there is no problems, is there no dupplicate scan between the two host?

With this option if  it is enabled on both the client and the server, the client Auto-Protect checks to see that the server's Auto-Protect settings provide at least as high a level of security as its own Auto-Protect settings. If this is so, the local computer trusts the Auto-Protect scan on the remote computer and does not rescan the file.

So i would like to know if the host already trust each other, cause it is not the fact it will be a dupplicate scan on the network  ?

Do you know how this process works? Is it an network service , a header is added to the the frames between host ?


I apologize for my poor english;

thx you for your responses

Hi,

       This is the relevant information as requested by you.

Trust files on remote computers running Auto-Protect

Prevents Auto-Protect from performing duplicate scans while network scanning is enabled.

If this option is enabled on two clients, each client checks to see that the other's Auto-Protect settings are as secure as its own. Each client then trusts the Auto-Protect scan on the other and does not rescan any files.

For example, when client A accesses a file on a network drive on client B, client A's Auto-Protect checks client B's Auto-Protect settings . If client B's Auto-Protect is trustworthy, client A Auto-Protect does not scan the file. If client B's Auto-Protect is not trustworthy, client A's Auto-Protect scans the file.

Disable this setting if you want to allow duplicate scanning. Duplicate scanning can reduce network performance on the client computer.

Note:
This functionality applies only to read access. When client A requests write access from client B, client A's Auto-Protect scans the file regardless of this setting.


Network cache

Enables or disables a record of the files that Auto-Protect has already scanned from a network server

This option prevents Auto-Protect from scanning the same file more than one time and may improve system performance. You can set the number of files (entries) that Auto-Protect scans and remembers. You can also set the timeout before the files are removed from the cache. After the timeout expires, Auto-Protect scans the network files again if the client requests them from the network server.