Operation Manual

Getting Started with Trend Micro™ ServerProtect™
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Tasks are assigned to a "task owner" who is responsible for maintaining the task. See
Managing Tasks on page 3-28.
Once you install ServerProtect on a server, three default tasks already exist: Scan,
Statistics, and Deploy. These tasks are essential for managing and monitoring
antivirus activities on your network. You can modify the target servers of these three
default tasks, as well as their definition.
When ServerProtect Finds a Virus (Virus Actions)
ServerProtect lets you configure the kind of action that the software takes on infected
files. You can even choose different courses of action for different kinds of viruses.
There are five possible actions that ServerProtect can take on an infected file:
• Bypass/Ignore: For a manual scan, ServerProtect skips the file without taking any
corrective action. However, detection of the virus is still recorded in the program’s
log entries. For Real-time Scan, ServerProtect treats the file as "deny-write",
protecting it from duplication or modification. See Defining Actions Against
Viruses on page 3-45 for more information.
• Delete: The infected file is deleted.
• Rename: The infected file extension is renamed to .vir. This prevents the file from
being executed or opened. If a file of that name with the .vir extension already
exists, the file will be renamed to .v01, .v02, and so on, until .v99.
• Quarantine: The infected file is moved to a folder of your choice. You can also
change the file extension of the moved file to prevent it from being inadvertently
opened or executed.
• Clean: Attempt to clean the virus code from the file. Since the cleaning process
sometimes corrupts the file and makes it unusable, you can back up the file before
cleaning.
All virus events and associated courses of action are recorded in the log file. For
more information, refer to the Viewing the infection logs topic in the online help and
Defining Actions Against Viruses on page 3-45.
Note: If you select Clean as the virus action, you can specify a secondary action if the
cleaning process is unsuccessful.