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<blockquote data-quote="Fabian Wosar" data-source="post: 837634" data-attributes="member: 24327">Those are horrible recommendations, to be honest. DDA will do absolutely nothing on x64 systems, as rootkits are pretty much dead on that platform thanks to Secure Boot. So unless you are stuck on Windows 7 or older or can&#039;t/don&#039;t want to use Secure Boot, do not enable that option. It will have no benefit at all to you, except for slowing the scan down dramatically.Scanning mail archives is pointless. In fact, it may cause issues. EAM will treat mail archives as normal archives. Meaning: If you have any malware file in your inbox and quarantine/delete the infection, EAM will remove the entire inbox. That option is more there for people who want to scan maildirs on a server for example.Or, you know, don&#039;t enable the pointless options that add absolutely nothing for your security and just waste a metric ##### tonne of resources.That&#039;s wrong. What that option does is leave as much of the signature database swapped out onto your disk at all times as possible. This will completely destroy performance every time EAM has to scan something, which it does all the time as you also changed the File Guard settings to scan everything all the time, which is a bad idea as well. If you want to go with the more aggressive File Guard options, you better make sure this option is off, as otherwise, EAM will have a serious impact on your overall performance because every time a file needs to be scanned, signatures have to be swapped in from the disk again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fabian Wosar, post: 837634, member: 24327"] Those are horrible recommendations, to be honest. DDA will do absolutely nothing on x64 systems, as rootkits are pretty much dead on that platform thanks to Secure Boot. So unless you are stuck on Windows 7 or older or can't/don't want to use Secure Boot, do not enable that option. It will have no benefit at all to you, except for slowing the scan down dramatically. Scanning mail archives is pointless. In fact, it may cause issues. EAM will treat mail archives as normal archives. Meaning: If you have any malware file in your inbox and quarantine/delete the infection, EAM will remove the entire inbox. That option is more there for people who want to scan maildirs on a server for example. Or, you know, don't enable the pointless options that add absolutely nothing for your security and just waste a metric ##### tonne of resources. [B][/B] That's wrong. What that option does is leave as much of the signature database swapped out onto your disk at all times as possible. This will completely destroy performance every time EAM has to scan something, which it does all the time as you also changed the File Guard settings to scan everything all the time, which is a bad idea as well. If you want to go with the more aggressive File Guard options, you better make sure this option is off, as otherwise, EAM will have a serious impact on your overall performance because every time a file needs to be scanned, signatures have to be swapped in from the disk again. [/QUOTE]

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