Scan Optimization

The scan optimization options let you do malware scan quickly and with less impact on performance and system resources. The options are:

Do not optimize malware scan -Scan optimization is disabled.

Optimize malware scan - Enables the Perform scan optimizations feature only (see below).

You can define custom scan optimization actions by enabling these options:

• Perform scan optimizations - Optimize the scan by storing file checksums and NTFS file system data during the first scan. NTFS cluster size, file name, and folder structure are cached. During subsequent scans, only new files or files whose checksum, file size, name, or structure has changed are scanned.
• Scan Priority is lower than other running process - Makes sure that scans have a lower priority for CPU, disk and other I/O resources to minimize the performance impact on critical processes.