How do I enable heuristic scanning?

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Description

Enabling heuristic scanning.

Components

All FortiGate units with a hard disk running FortiOS 2.8 or 3.0.

Steps or Commands

To enable heuristic scanning

Go to Antivirus> Quarantine> Config.
Select the services for which to quarantine files.
Select Quarantine to Disk.
Select Enable AutoSubmit.
Select Use File Status.
Select Heuristics.
Select Apply.

Note: Configure Heuristic scanning using the CLI.

See How do I configure heuristic scanning.

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