Scanning at bootup on Linux machines?

[vPilot]

Question that I hope has an easy answer: Does McAfee scan for anything on a Linux system when the system is in the process of bootup (whether cold start or reboot)? If so, what parts of the system is it scanning - disk, memory, etc., and where is that bootup scan controlled at (ePO, mfetpcli, etc.)?

[Pravas]

Hi @vPilot ,

Thank you for your post. I'll tag my colleague @BSharma to throw some light.

Meanwhile, please also refer the list of comparison of features between windows & Linux

https://kbm.trellix.com/agent/index?page=content&id=KB90029&actp=null&viewlocale=en_US&showDraft=fal...

Thanks

[AlwinSudarsan · Accepted solution]

Hi @vPilot,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

The answer to your question is No. McAfee does not scan for anything on a Linux system when the system is in the process of bootup (whether cold start or reboot). ENSLTP only initializes as all other applications and starts to function when there is read/write operation on the disk.

@Pravas, thank you for sharing the KB article.