Malware scans

This section provides options to select scan parameters for On-demand scan.

Selected profile

A specific set of parameters used by the On-demand scanner. You can use one of the pre-defined scan profiles or create a new profile. The scan profiles use different ThreatSense engine parameters.

List of profiles

To create a new one, click Edit. Type a profile name and click Add. The new profile will display in the Selected profile drop-down menu that lists existing scan profiles.

On-demand & Machine learning protection

Scanner settings can be configured separately for the real-time scanner and the on-demand scanner. By default, Use real-time protection settings is enabled. When enabled, relevant On-demand scan settings are inherited from the Real-time & Machine Learning protection section.