Antivirus & Antimalware protection
The Antivirus and Antimalware protection module allows you to protect your Windows and macOS machines from all recent malware threats. Note that the Active Protection functionality that is part of the antimalware protection is not supported on macOS machines. See the full list of supported antimalware features: Supported features by operating system.
Acronis Cyber Protect is supported and registered in Windows Security Center.
If your machine is already protected with a third-party antivirus solution at the moment of applying the Antivirus and Antimalware protection module to the machine, the system will generate an alert and will stop the Real-time protection in order to prevent potential compatibility and performance issues. You will need to either disable or uninstall the third-party antivirus solution, in order to enable fully functional Acronis Cyber Protect Antivirus and Antimalware protection.
The following antimalware capabilities are available to you:
- Detection of malware in files in the real-time protection and on-demand modes (for Windows, macOS)
- Detection of malicious behavior in processes (for Windows)
- Blocking access to malicious URLs (for Windows)
- Moving dangerous files to the quarantine
- Adding trusted corporate applications to the whitelist
The Antivirus and Antimalware protection module provides you with two types of scanning:
- Real-time protection scan
- On-demand malware scan
Real-time protection scan
Real-time protection checks all the files that are being executed or opened on a machine to prevent malware threats.
You can choose one of the following types of scanning:
- On-access detection means that the antimalware program runs in the background and actively and constantly scans your machine system for viruses and other malicious threats for the entire duration that your system is powered on. Malware will be detected in both cases when a file is being executed and during various operations with the file such as opening it for reading/editing.
- On-execution detection means that only executable files will be scanned at the moment they are run to ensure they are clean and will not cause any damage to your machine or data. Copying of an infected file will remain unnoticed.
On-demand malware scan
Antimalware scanning is performed according to a schedule.
You can monitor the results of antimalware scanning in Dashboard > Overview > Recently affected widget.