Settings → Quick Scan

In addition to the general Scan Settings, MetaDefender Drive enables you to adjust the settings specific to Quick Scan.

  1. Go to Settings → Preferences → Quick Scan, and click Edit Settings:
Quick Scan settings in the Settings menu

Quick Scan settings in the Settings menu

  1. From the Quick Scan Settings menu, you can select the filesystem paths to be included the next time you start a Quick Scan, such as /program, /users__, /system, or all of the available paths.

By default, only the /system path is included in the Quick Scan since it contains the most important files and folders of a Windows system, and it is targeted the most by attackers.

Selecting Quick Scan paths

Selecting Quick Scan paths

The estimated time for a Windows laptop with SSD storage to scan an individual path is 30 minutes or less. A scan of all of the suggested paths would take approximately 1 hour and a half.

..

Type to search, ESC to discard
Type to search, ESC to discard
Type to search, ESC to discard