Carbon Black Cloud: What Types of Files Can Be Deleted by Auto-Delete Malware Feature
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Products
Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter)
Issue/Introduction
What Types of Files Can Be Deleted by Auto-Delete Malware Feature?
Environment
Carbon Black Cloud Web Console: All Current Supported Versions
Carbon Black Cloud Windows Sensor: 3.2.1 and later
Carbon Black Cloud Mac Sensor: 3.3 and later
Resolution
Auto-Delete Malware feature will only allow to delete Portable Executable (PE) format files and macOS-executables by default.
Additional Information
The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems.
Auto-delete will not delete regular document files that do not contain macOS-executablemacros.