AntiVirus Essential

DSM Version

AntiVirus Essential

Features

  • Scans and detects the abnormal files to protect your Synology NAS away from malware and viruses
  • Supports customizing scanning plans by configuring scanning schedules and specifying the scanning target
  • Automatically identifies and scan the new or modified files to save the scanning time

Specifications

  • Powered by ClamAV scanning engine
  • Scans the full system or specific folders
  • Scheduled automatic scan tasks
  • Smart Scan for new or modified files
  • Whitelist to exclude files from being scanned

Limitations

  • Minimum capacity of RAM required: 1 GB
  • Files larger than 2,048 MB will not be scanned
  • The probability of success for finding viruses hidden in archive files (e.g., ZIP, RAR, ARJ, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2) will be lower
  • Remote Folders (CIFS) mounted in File Station will not be included in full scan
  • Does not support scanning the following items:
    • Read-only shared folders
    • Hybrid Share folders
    • Email service-related folders, including the default MailPlus shared folder and Maildir folders in users' "home" directory. You can run an antivirus engine on your Synology MailPlus Server to scan incoming MailPlus messages
    • Snapshots
    • Files backed up via Time Machine
    • Invisible .bucket files within .hbk files from Hyper Backup's multi-version backup tasks in local destinations