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Enforced Client Product Guide Using the Virus and Spyware Protection Service
Configuring policies for virus and spyware protection
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Set advanced virus protection options
On the Groups + Policies page, use the Advanced Settings tab to configure enhanced protection
and safeguard against additional threats lurking in out-of-the-way locations.
Figure 4-4 Advanced virus protection policy settings
Select your update frequency
Enable optional protection
Select your update frequency
By default, computers check for updates every 12 hours. You can specify that they check as often
as every four hours or as infrequently as once a day.
Note
To select an update frequency:
1 On the Groups + Policies page, click Add Policy (or click Edit to modify an existing policy).
2 Click the Advanced Settings tab.
3 For Check for updates every, select a setting, then click Save.
Enable optional protection
Specify additional updates and advanced scanning to increase protection on client computers.
Note
See Update computers where no user is logged on on page 55 for information about the Update
client computers where users are not logged in
policy setting.
An update is not necessarily downloaded every time the computer checks for updates.
Checking can reveal that no new update is available.