User Guide

Setting Policy for On-Access Scanning
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5. Click Apply to save your action policy settings. The settings are
transmitted to the ePolicy Orchestrator agents for enforcement the next
time that the agents request new policies and tasks from the server. See
the ePolicy Orchestrator Administrator’s Guide for information about
agent-server communication.
WARNING: If you do not click Apply, you settings are ignored.
Status of infected files after scanning
The status of an infected file after scanning depends upon anumberof factors:
* Success means that the scanner took the action that the administrator specified and
the desired result was achieved, without incident.
** Failure means that the scanner was not able to take the action that the administrator
specified, but took a different action instead.
Failure can occur for a variety of reasons, such as: no driver yet exists for cleaning a
new virus; the virus has characteristics that are uncleanable; timing conflicts exist
between actions taken on a file by two different applications; timing conflicts exist
relating to the way that an application, such as Microsoft Word deals with multiple
versionsofafilewhenitisinuse.
The table below shows, by factor, the status of infected files after scanning:
Scanning action • Deny Access
• Delete
•Move
• Clean
Operating system • Windows 95 and Windows 98
• Windows NT and Windows 2000
Trigger • File read from disk
• File written to disk
Outcome • Success *
•Failure**