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Your first scan, without dumping everything into quarantine

How to start a scan on a real folder and how to read the result before acting on it.

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Level
Beginner
Reading time
4 min
Steps
4
Category
Getting started
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The steps, in order

  1. 1

    Step 1

    Open the product and go to Scan. Pick a folder with executables, not the whole disk: a first full scan is slow and produces triage noise.

  2. 2

    Step 2

    Leave deep off for the first run. The fast engines (hash, YARA prefilter, signatures) catch most known samples; deep adds macro analysis and the more expensive rules.

  3. 3

    Step 3

    Expand the rows: you see SHA-256, MD5, MIME and the per-engine table. That is where the exact rule that triggered the verdict appears.

  4. 4

    Step 4

    If the verdict is “suspicious”, not “malicious”, there is no need to isolate. Check the rule, check the file signature and decide with information rather than fear.

Note

The score is computed locally, before any action. The dashboard does not make decisions for you.

Try it on a file you already have.

The installer is 177 MB and asks for no account. Not convinced? Check a link above — the web engine is already running on this page.