Scan Optimization

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

Scan priority is lower than other running processes by default.

The options are:

Do not optimize malware scan - Scan optimization is disabled.

Optimize malware scan:

• 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.