Product guide

Restricting Potentially Unwanted Programs
VirusScan Enterprise protects your computer from potentially unwanted programs that are a
nuisance or present a security risk. One common unwanted program policy is configured, but
you can individually enable or disable the policy and specify actions for each of the VirusScan
Enterprise scanners.
Contents
How potentially unwanted programs are defined
Configuring the unwanted programs policy
How potentially unwanted programs are defined
Potentially unwanted programs are defined as software programs written by legitimate companies
that can alter the security state or the privacy policy of the computer on which they are installed.
This software can but does not necessarily include spyware, adware, and dialers. These programs
can be downloaded with a program that the user wants. Security-minded users recognize such
programs and, in some cases, remove them.
Configuring the unwanted programs policy
Configuration is a two-step process:
1 Define which potentially unwanted programs to detect and exclude:
• Select whole categories of programs or specific programs within a category from a
predefined list which comes from the current DAT file.
• Specify exclusions.
• Create a list of user-defined programs to detect.
2 After configuring the Unwanted Programs Policy, enable unwanted program detection
in the on-access, on-demand, and email scanners, then configure which actions to take
when an unwanted program is detected.
To access the Unwanted Programs properties:
• From the ePolicy Orchestrator console, go to Systems | Policy Catalog and select
VirusScan Enterprise 8.7.0 in the Product list and Unwanted Programs Policies in
the Category list.
• From the VirusScan Console, open the Unwanted Programs Policy properties.
Configure the options on each tab. For option descriptions, click ? or Help on each tab.
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