Smart Protection

Smart Scan

Smart Scan shifts much of the malware and spyware scanning functionality to a Smart Protection Server. Instead of downloading a complete malware pattern file to the local computer, a much smaller version of the pattern is downloaded which can identify files as either "confirmed safe", or "possibly dangerous". "Possibly dangerous" files are compared against the larger complete pattern files stored on Trend Micro Smart Protection Servers to determine with certainty whether they pose a danger or not. This method keeps local pattern files small and reduces the size and number of updates required by Agents/Appliances.

A computer that is configured to use Smart Scan will not download full Anti-Malware patterns locally. Therefore if your Anti-Malware license expires while a computer is configured to use Smart Scan, switching Smart Scan off will not result in local patterns being used to scan for malware since no Anti-Malware patterns will be present locally.

Smart Protection Server for File Reputation Service

Smart Protection Service for File Reputation supplies file reputation information required by Smart Scan. Select whether to connect directly to Trend Micro's Smart Protection service or whether to connect to one or more locally installed Smart Protection Servers.

Select the When off domain, connect to global Smart Protection Service. (Windows only.) option to use the global Smart Protection Service if the computer is off domain. The computer is considered to be off domain if it cannot connect to its domain controller. (This option is for Windows Agents only.)

You can view and edit the list of available proxies on the Proxies tab on the Administration > System Settings screen.

Smart Protection Server Connection Warning

This option determines whether error events are generated and Alerts are raised if a computer loses its connection to the Smart Protection Server.

If you have a locally installed Smart Protection Server, this option should be set to Yes on at least one computer so that you are notified if there is a problem with the Smart Protection Server itself.