Scan Results

MetaDefender Drive offers comprehensive scan reports with detailed lists of issues and vulnerabilities found during scans. Once a scan is completed and its report is generated, users can view lists of the Files with no issues, Potentially Infected files, Files with Potential Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Files with Sensitive Data, Files with Suspicious Country of Origin, and Skipped Files.

Scan Report

A detailed scan report will be generated once a scan is completed successfully. For previous scan reports, they can be accessed from the Reports page.

Potentially Infected

Includes a list of files with potential malware infection:

Potentially Vulnerable Files

Includes a list of files with potential vulnerabilities that are suspected to be a cause of a Zero-Day attack:

The view of a detected file with potential zero-day vulnerability

Details of the vulnerability found

Sensitive Data

Includes a list of files with detected sensitive data, such as passwords and private keys:

The view of a detected file with sensitive data

Details of the sensitive data found in one of the detected files

Country of Origin

Includes a list of files with non-compliant country of origin. You can set the list of non-compliant countries from Settings → Preferences.

Detected files with potential origin country that can lead to non-compliance

Details of a non-compliant file and its detected country of origin

Integrity Failures

Integrity failures are detected when a baseline is set for a workflow. In that case, when you select Rerun from the Workflow page or Run this scan again from the Reports page, MetaDefender Drive will compare every single file in the scanned path associated with the selected workflow to their baseline. The Integrity Failure result will include details of the differences found. You can learn more about workflows on the Using Workflows page.

New and modified files detected after comparing the scan results to the baseline

Detected a file that was modified with sensitive data after comparing it to the baseline report

Boot Sector Infections

Includes the system partitions infected by boot sector malware.

Boot sector infection detected

Firmware (BIOS/UEFI) Vulnerabilities

Includes a list of the detected firmware vulnerabilities that could make your device vulnerable to RootKit attacks.

Details of a firmware vulnerability

System Properties

By clicking the View Properties button at the top of the scan results page, you will be able to view properties extracted from the scanned system, including Serial Number, CPU, Memory, Hostname, Operating System, IP address, and MAC address.

System Properties window

Saving Report Files

After each scan, the report will be saved in the /reports folder of MetaDefender Drive's NTFS partition. From Settings → Preferences → Reports, you can choose to save the scan reports in the following formats: JSON (default), TXT, PDF and CSV.

Report saving formats

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