{"id":4249,"date":"2026-06-08T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4249"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:57:57","slug":"how-to-scan-files-that-are-linked-by-symbolic-link-in-linux-security-64","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/support-articles\/how-to-scan-files-that-are-linked-by-symbolic-link-in-linux-security-64\/","title":{"rendered":"How to scan files that are linked by symbolic link in Linux Security 64?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to scan files that are linked by symbolic link in Linux Security 64?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Realtime scan is able to scan symbolic link, as long as the target file&#39;s original location\u00a0is included in RTS\u00a0scan target. For manual scan (using remote command from PMC) and schedule scan, symbolic link will not be scanned.\u00a0For fsanalyze, we need to use &quot;&#8211;follow&quot; or &quot;-L&quot; option in order to scan the target file&#39;s original location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to scan files that are linked by symbolic link in Linux Security 64?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4249","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005665","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:57:57","import_hash":"ff038ae0f20c3b6618af6d6b443401764bfb46ee","vanilla_article_id":32397,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32397-how-to-scan-files-that-are-linked-by-symbolic-link-in-linux-security-64","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}