Scans
Besides the real-time scanner, Pyxsoft Antimalware scans every account on a schedule, and you can start a scan of the whole server or of single accounts whenever you want. Scans apply the same automatic actions as the real-time scanner.
Full server scan
The Scans tab shows the last full scan, the schedule and how long the last full scans took. Click Scan now to start one.
While a scan runs, the card shows the progress, the account being scanned, the files scanned, the speed, the CPU the service is using and what has been found so far. Stop ends it.
When a scan ends with suspicious files, it can wait up to 3 minutes for Pyxsoft Labs to review them, so the scan finishes with the final result. Click Don't wait to end it right away; anything Labs confirms later still shows up in Detections.
Files that haven't changed since they were last scanned are not analyzed again, so a repeated scan of the same server finishes much faster than the first one.
Scheduled scan
Click Change schedule (or go to Settings → Scheduled scan) to choose the days and the time of the full scan. The time is the server's time. With no days selected, the scheduled scan is off.
CPU limit
Scans run with a CPU limit so the sites on the server don't slow down. Set it in Settings → Performance. 100% is one core, as top shows it.
| Limit | Effect |
|---|---|
| 25 % / 50 % | Slower scan, lower impact on the server |
| 100 % (default) | Balanced speed and impact |
| No limit | Uses several cores (top may show 400% or more): the fastest scan, with the highest impact |
The limit applies to global and account scans from the next scan on. The real-time scanner is not affected: it only scans files as they change.
Scanning accounts
The Accounts tab lists every cPanel account with its reseller, its state (clean, with detections, never scanned or excluded) and when it was last scanned.
- Scan on a row scans that account right away.
- Select several accounts and click Scan selected to queue them; they are scanned one after another.
- An account with detections links to its detections.
- An account excluded in Settings is skipped by the full scan, but scanning it by hand still scans it.
Account scans are not available while a full server scan is running.
History
The History list at the bottom of the Scans tab shows every scan with its type (scheduled or manual), scope, duration, files, detections and result. Detections on a row opens the detections that scan found. A scan marked Failed was interrupted because the service stopped or restarted during it.