What does a Background Scan do?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

What does a Background Scan do?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard: Current Version
• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: Supported Versions
• Microsoft Windows OS: Supported Versions
• Linux OS: Supported Versions
• MacOS: Supported Versions

Resolution

The Sensor iterates through all drive letters and will only perform a Background Scan on "fixed" drives to pre-populate a local reputation database with information about reputations at the time of the scan and binary hashes.