FCS NOT scan removable USB devices...
Friends,

I have the following problemon myFCS work environment: Scenario:
Mobile usersuse laptops with Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3with theFCS v1.5.1958.0.

Problem:
FCSnotdetect automaticallyviruses and malware that are in passive mode store in USB mass storage devices "PENDRIVE".

Symptom:
After inserting a "PENDRIVE" on a laptop computer, FCSremove the threat only if it is active virus, such as "auto executablevirus typeautorun.inf", this is normal...however, whether a passive virus type trojancontained in one folder in second or third level of the removable disk, this is not detectedautomatically by FCS.Is needperform manualscan to remove thiscontaminated files in subfolders.

Requirements:
We need the FCSperform automaticSCAN of all filesand subfoldersin the removable disk to be inserted incomputer protected.
We need theend user has the ability to perform a manual scan/quickonsuspect"PENDRIVE" by right-clicking on it.

Thanks for the help they can provide...
February 12th, 2009 11:25pm

The current FCS v1 product does not have the functionality to do an autoscan of all content of a removable drive. If you think about this more as well this may not be an optimum solution either as the size of removable drives increase. Doing a full scan of a 32gb jump drive is not a quick/simple process and may irritate your user base if this scan must run every time they plugin/remove their drive...

As you mentioned we do actively protect any IO to/from that removable drive so autoruns that execute are scanned and any files that autruns call would be scanned.. also any reads/writes to that remove drive file system are scanned so if a user did doubleclick a malware.exe on that filesystem we would detect that read and would not allow an infection of the system.

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February 19th, 2009 10:30pm

Thanks for your reply.
I think this is an option that should be left to election of the end user.
And with this other question?
We need theend user has the ability to perform a manual scan/quickonsuspect"PENDRIVE" by right-clicking on it.

Thanks
February 20th, 2009 10:53pm

Shell integration does not exist in FCS v1 ie right click on something in explorer and scan.

In FCSv1 you would need to go into the client gui and select custom scan and then the location you want to scan and scan it.
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March 5th, 2009 8:16pm

Kurt,

Thanks for your reply.

Shell integration is a basic function that any antivirus product. I hope Microsoft considers this option in future versions of FCS.

Is unfortunate, FCS is not complying with my demands.

Thanks,

Carlos A Cambridge M

March 5th, 2009 10:06pm

From what I understand v2/Stirling will have this functionality.
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March 5th, 2009 10:17pm

Thanks for the information Kurt,

Greetings,
March 5th, 2009 11:29pm

Any word as to when v2/Stirling will be out? We also need the shell integration and need to be able to select automatic scanning of removable media on certain systems.
Rich Torpey
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December 21st, 2009 10:22pm

Hello,

Any updates on this?

Thanks,
Dom

February 6th, 2014 2:59pm

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