{"id":3974,"date":"2026-09-09T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=3974"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:13:39","slug":"how-does-network-drive-scanning-work-with-elements-endpoint-protection","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-does-network-drive-scanning-work-with-elements-endpoint-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"How does Network drive scanning work with Elements Endpoint Protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How does the network drive scanning work?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Scan network drives setting is enabled by default.<\/p>\n<p>How does it behave?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scanning only happens upon execution of (executable) files on the network drive<\/li>\n<li>Basic open \/ close, copy \/ paste operations for a file are not scanned<br \/>#For Elements EPP, users can enable real time scan for those actions by setting profile &quot;Scan network drives&quot; as &quot;Scan on any file access&quot;.\u00a0 Note: \u00a0scanning files on network drive on every file access can be very slow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Testing with EICAR test file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The execution of an eicar.com file will only work on legacy 16-bit systems or those which support it. Most 64-bit systems do not support it and therefor a real time scan test will most likely not trigger an alert on that file.<\/li>\n<li>However, the manual\/scheduled scan will still detect the file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are network drives scanned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-3974","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005594","source_version":4,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-09-09 06:13:39","import_hash":"fa7a100fb302af4b867895b33fe7a26a45505e27","vanilla_article_id":32452,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32452-how-does-network-drive-scanning-work-with-elements-endpoint-protection","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}