Threat Detection and Neutralization

Threat detection and neutralization can be performed either by Scanner (on user demand or on schedule) or by the SpIDer Guard file system monitor and SpIDer Gate network connection monitor.

To enable or disable SpIDer Guard and SpIDer Gate, use the context menu in the notification area or open the corresponding page with the monitor settings (refer to File System Monitoring and Monitoring Network Connections).

To view and manage Scanner current tasks for scanning file system objects, open the task management page.

To view threats detected by Scanner or the SpIDer Guard file system monitor, open the page with listed threats.

To manage quarantined threats, open the quarantine management page.

To configure the reaction of Dr.Web for Linux to detected threats, open the settings window. On this window, you can also enable and adjust a schedule of periodic scanning as well as configure monitoring of encrypted connections.

If Dr.Web for Linux is contolled by a centralized protection server that does not allow the user to start scanning, the Scanner page of the Dr.Web for Linux window is disabled. Furthermore, in this case the notification agent and the graphical management interface do not start scheduled scanning.