NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

To configure the NetBackup Malware Scanner for Windows

1. Download the NetBackup Malware Scanner from Veritas Download Center.
2. Extract the downloaded zip files. Extracted files must have the following structure:

   NBAntiMalwareClient_version number 
      Readme.txt
   
       NBAntiMalwareClient_version number_AMD64 
         savapi-sdk-win64.zip
            setup.bat
            cleanup.bat

3. Refer to the Readme.txt file for install, upgrade, or uninstall processes.

   To install or upgrade the NetBackup Malware scanner on a Windows computer:

   • Navigate to NBAntiMalwareClient_version number_AMD64 folder and run the setup.bat file.

   • Enter the target location to install the NetBackup Malware scanner.

   Note:

   If NetBackup Malware Scanner is already installed, then setup.bat/setup.sh overwrites the existing binary files.

   To uninstall NetBackup Malware scanner from Windows computer:

   • Run the cleanup.bat file.

4. An optional setting can be used to increase number of threads in scanning.

   Update the aviraconf.txt file. Add the following entry:

   NumThreads = Number of threads

   Where Number of threads is the number of threads for the scanning. The default value is the number of CPU cores. (Minimum value is 1. Maximum value is 300).

   Note:

   If the number of CPUs on the scan host is less than 16, then number of threads defaults to the number of CPUs. If greater than 16, then the number of threads defaults to 16 threads. If NumThreads is configured, that value determines the number of threads for scanning.

5. To validate that the scan works with NetBackup Malware Scanner on a Windows setup, perform the following:

   • Run the ./update.bat command to get the latest signature update.

   • Navigate to the NetBackup Malware Scanner installed path and run the avira_lib_dir_scan.exe file with the required scan_path and conf_path parameters.

6. Configuration file must be present in NetBackup Malware Scanner installed path.

   For example:

   avira_lib_dir_scan.exe "c:\malwarescample" -log_path "C:\NBMalwareScanner.log" -conf_path "C:\NBMalwareScannerInstallPath\savapi-sdk-win64\bin\aviraconf.txt

   Ensure that the output of the command is successful. For the existing sample malware files, the output must be a list of infected files. Else the output must be empty.

7. (Optional) The MALWARE_LOG environment variable can be used to increase the logging level.

   For example, the setting MALWARE_LOG=2 sets the logging level to WARNING.

   0 DEBUG
   1 INFO
   2 WARNING
   3 ALERT
   4 ERROR