Scanning

Scheduling a Scan

Scans can be scheduled at multiple levels. The Scan Scheduler allows you to schedule or edit a scan for any level of your account. This allows you to easily maintain a large amount of endpoints by only configuring one scan or manage several different scans in one place. The Scan Scheduler is accessible from the Account Settings tab.

Also, from the Device Options page for each device, click Scan in the Actions menu and then Next Test. This will allow a scheduled scan for the individual machine independent of all other endpoints.

Scheduling a Scan

1. Click Account Settings and choose Scan Scheduler.
2. Select Add Schedule in the upper right and choose your level and frequency options.
3. Adjust your scan settings to suit your needs and press the Save button when finished. After the scan finished, the results will be emailed to your registered email address shown. You may add another email address and delete the original if you wish.

Live Scan Status

From an individual device page you can now monitor the live status of a scan. This Provides more information on what stage the scan is in and when it will be close to concluding. From this view you’ll also see rotating messages with information about the scan Process within PC Matic . It’s important to note that these messages don’t coordinate with the running scan.

The same sections will rotate through, and this doesn’t mean that the section displayed is included in the scan currently running.

Scan Components

PC Matic provides various components in its scanning feature to comprehensively assess and improve the health of client devices.

Malware Scan

• Detects and removes malware and potentially unwanted applications.
• Options for Quick, Full, or Custom Scans.

Update Software Vulnerabilities

We will automatically update over 30 third-party applications and make sure to keep each on the latest version and maintain the security of the Program. (Java, Adobe, iTunes, Skype, etc.)

More details are available in our Patch Management article.

Improve Performance

• Scan System Restore
• Scan Startup Programs
• Scan and Clean Junk Files
• Scan Benchmarks
• Scan Internet Settings
• Scan Installed Software
• Scan and Apply Performance Tweaks
• Scan Running Processes
• Scan Services
• Scan Memory Utilization
• Scan and Clean Sched Tasks
• Scan Bandwidth