To view information about stored quarantined files by using the Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Administrator Console, click Monitoring, and in Server Security Views, click Quarantine. In the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane, by default, the following information is reported for each quarantined item. You can also customize the information that appears on the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane; for more information, see Customizing the Quarantine view.

Information Description

Detection Time

The date and time that the infected or filtered file was detected.

User Name

The name of the user who accessed the file.

Incident Category

Type of incident detected, for example, Virus or Keyword filter. A value of 7 - Incident means a miscellaneous incident, such as a timeout or an exceedingly nested file.

Incident Name

Name of the malware or name of the filter list that was matched (for details, see Incidents reported.

File

Name of the file that contained malware or a filter match.

SharePoint Path

Location of the file on the SharePoint portal.

Viewing quarantined item details

You can view additional details about each quarantined item by selecting it. The additional details appear on the Quarantined Item pane, where you can view detection details, document details, and engine details.

About detection details

When you select a quarantined item and then click the Detection Details tab, the following detection information is reported about the quarantined item.

Information Description

ID

Unique ID assigned to the incident, for example {700D944A-6D75-410D-A7CD-70E563134E4F}.

Detection Time

Date and time that the incident was detected.

State

Action taken on the quarantined item.

Incident Category

Reason for detection, for example, Virus or Keyword filter.

Incident Name

Name of the malware, name of the filter list that was matched, or name of other incident reported (for details, see Incidents reported.

File

Name of the file that was quarantined.

Folder

Location of the file.

Scan Job Name

Type of scan job (realtime, scheduled, on-demand) that quarantined the item.

Transfer Direction

Direction of the file transfer (whether the quarantining occurred during an upload or a download.

About document details

When you select a quarantined item and then click the Document Details tab, the following information about the infected file is reported.

Information Description

User Name

The name of the user who accessed the file.

Author Name

The name of the document author.

Author Address

The e-mail address of the document author.

Last Modified User Name

The name of the user who last modified the document.

Last Modified User Address

The e-mail address of the user who last modified the document.

About engine details

When you select a quarantined item and then click the Engine Details tab, you see the following engine information for each engine that scanned the file, regardless of whether it detected the incident.

Note:
This information applies only to malware detections, not filter matches.

Information Description

Engine name

The name of the engine that scanned the file.

Detection type

Type of incident detected, as reported by the engine.

Detection name

The name of the malware, as reported by the engine.

Engine version

The version of the engine.

Definition version

The version of the malware definition files currently in use by the engine. (This data is not available with every engine.)

Confidence

The confidence level that this was a correct detection, as reported by the engine.

Severity

The severity of the damage that the detected item could cause, as reported by the engine.

Was cleaned

Denotes whether the file was cleaned, as reported by the engine. 

Customizing the Quarantine view

You can customize the quarantine view by performing the following tasks on the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane:

  • Choosing which columns appear.

  • Specifying filter criteria in order to only display certain quarantine items.

  • Sorting quarantine items by clicking any of the columns (for example, Incident Category). This causes the quarantine items to be sorted by the values in that column.

These actions have no effect on the actual items, just on which records are displayed.

To customize which columns appear for Quarantine
  1. On the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane, in the Actions section, click Choose Columns.

  2. In the Choose Columns dialog box, select which columns you want to appear on the main Server Security Views - Quarantine pane, and then click Apply and Close.

To filter the quarantine view
  1. On the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane, select the field on which you want to filter by using the Filter by option. Each choice in Filter by corresponds to one of the fields in the Server Security Views - Quarantine pane.

  2. Specify your filter criteria as follows:

    If you selected a date and time field, for example Detection Time, enter the starting date and time in the Start date and Start time fields, and the ending date and time in the End date and End time fields.

    If you selected a field that has a fixed value, for example, Incident Category, select a value (for example, Virus) from the Filter Value drop-down list.

    If you selected a field that for which you can type a string value, for example, Incident Name, enter a string in the Filter Value field.

    Note:
    You can use prefix matches in order to broaden your filter search. For example, type th in order to include all fields that begin with the letters "th".

    To run the filter, click the search icon (represented by a magnifying glass).

    You can click the red X icon to cancel the filter and return to your original view.

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