Xcitium Enterprise

Scan and Clean Your Computer

Click 'Antivirus' > 'Run a Scan'

The 'Run a Scan' area lets you launch an on-demand scan on an item of your choice.

The item can be anything you choose - your entire computer, a specific drive or partition or even a single file.

You can also scan a wide range of removable storage devices, such as external hard-drives, USB sticks and more.

Run an on-demand virus scan

Open Xcitium Client Security

Click the 'Antivirus' tab

Click 'Run a Scan' box

Next, choose the type of scan you want to run:

XCS ships with two pre-defined scan profiles - 'Full Scan' and 'Quick Scan'. These cannot be edited or removed:

Full Scan - Scans every drive, folder and file on your system, including external connected devices.

Quick Scan - Scans important operating system files, system memory, auto-run entries, registry keys and hidden services.

Create New Scan – Create your own custom scan of specific files, folders or drives. See Create a custom scan profile if you need more details.

Click 'Scan' after making your selection (or just double-click the profile name).

Custom Scan

You need to create a scan profile in order to run a custom scan. Once created, you can re-run the scan in future.

Open Xcitium Client Security

Click the 'Antivirus' tab

Click the 'Run a Scan' box

Click 'Create New Scan'

Type a name for your new profile. For example, 'My External Drives'

Click 'Add' to choose files, folders or drives you want to include in the profile

Repeat the process to add multiple items

Click 'Apply'. Your new profile will be listed in the 'Run a Scan' dialog

Select your new profile in the list and click 'Scan'

Next, see:

Scan progress and results

Create a custom scan profile

Instantly scan items

Tip: If you just want to scan a file or folder, you can just drag it into the scan box in the 'Summary' area.

Scan Progress and Results

Before running the scan, Xcitium Client Security will first check for AV database updates. If updates are available they will be downloaded and installed.

The scan, based on the profile you selected, will begin immediately.

The progress dialog shows the profile name, the location that is currently being scanned, the start time and duration of the scan, the total number of objects scanned so far and the number of threats found.

Click 'Pause' to suspend the scan

Click 'Resume' to recommence scanning

Click 'Stop Scan' to abort the scan process altogether.

Once the scan is complete, the results window opens:

The results window lists all threats discovered by the scan and provides controls which let you deal with the them:

Click the 'Threat Name' column header to sort results in alphabetical order

Click the 'Risk' column header to sort results by risk level

Select 'All' if you want to apply 'Clean' or 'Ignore' actions to every threat.

Save Results - Save the scan results as a text file.

Clean – There are three options to deal with an infected file:

Clean – The selected items will be completely deleted from your computer

Disinfect - If a disinfection routine exists, XCS will remove the infection and retain the original file. If no disinfection routine exists, XCS will move the file to quarantine.

Quarantine – Moves the selected files to quarantine. Files moved in this way are encrypted and not allowed to run. You can view the files at a later time, and choose to delete or restore the file to its original location. See https://help.xcitium.com/topic-463-1-1035-16009-Quarantined-Items.html for more details.

Ignore - Two options:

Once - The file is removed from the threat results. The file isn't, however, added to the list of exclusions. The file will be detected as a threat again by the next scan.

Add to Exclusions - The file is moved to the exclusions list. XCS will skip this file in future scans and not consider it to be a threat.

Create a Scan Profile

'Scan Profiles' let you set up custom scans on specific areas on your system. Scan profiles can be run on-demand at any time.