Endpoint Protection

hi everybody
i think that it is not only my trouble that SEP autoprotect do not scan files within archives
i think it will be reasonable to add a feature to scan archives by a size limit (file size can be set by administrator)

please tell your opinions for this situation - may be Symantec programmers will be polite and help us
thanks)

Auto-Protect will scan only when a file is accessed or modified.
But if you have scheduled a full scan that should scan your archives.

we have file servers with huge archives
so full scan of one of those servers is 18 hours

"Auto-Protect will scan only when a file is accessed or modified." - please put virus file in archive and try to access it or modify
you will se the results

Well, ideally SEP Auto protect will not scan an archive file by default as it's per design. Though if you run a manual scan, you can scan to a max of 11 levels deep in Archive files.

You can set the Scan Level options for how deep you wish to scan in the SEP scan settings tab on the client.

I agreed with Vikram that autoprotect scan file when accessed or modified, You can tune up your scan performance to lessen the time for scanning

please read the problem carefully

i am talking about ARCHIVE files
for example i need to scan archives with size no more than 10 Mb
and i need to scan them automatically as soon as anybody copy them to the server

As Vikram said that auto protect will scan only when a application is lunched or a file is accessed or modified.. But when a file is archive it is non active hence auto protect  will not scan it. 

I hope this answers you query..

@Viachaslau:

This is not supported in SEP. You'd have to manually scan the files by Rt. Click > Scan for Viruses option. I'd recommend that you add this requirement to the IDEAS Section on the forum for Engg. to work on.

The feature request is pretty logical and straightforward. I believe most of the users would want such a capability. I would!