SharePoint Protection

This Article Applies to:

Avast Small Business Solutions
Avast Business Antivirus Pro
Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus
Avast Business CloudCare Antivirus

The SharePoint component for Windows Servers is specifically meant to protect your SharePoint Server from threats without interfering in its function. It is a security plugin that you install on your SharePoint Server. The component will scan all uploaded and downloaded files to help prevent malicious documents from infecting your business data, and it can help block ransomware attacks. If the plugin discovers a harmful document, it will quarantine it and alert the user.

SharePoint Shield is not visible in the main UI components/features list, but is visible in the advanced settings.

Supported SharePoint Servers

Microsoft SharePoint Server versions 2010 and later are supported.

Prerequisites

For SharePoint Server to be detected by Avast Business Antivirus and the plugin installed, it should be installed prior to installing Antivirus. If it is installed afterward, the SharePoint component would need to be added manually.

Recommended Antivirus Components

When installing servers in a business environment, please follow our guidelines in Recommended Components for Servers and Workstations.

Configuring SharePoint Protection

Advanced SharePoint settings can be accessed by navigating to Menu > Settings > Protection > SharePoint. You can also enable/disable the component here using the dedicated toggle.

In this section, you can define how SharePoint handles an uncleanable object. It can either deny access to or replace the object with a warning.

Any malicious activity detected will be written to the Windows Event Log - you can select several logging options:

Low: Errors and viruses only
Normal: Warning, errors, and viruses
High: For more detail in Avast logs
Maximum: For the max detail in Avast logs

There are no other advanced controls for the SharePoint component in the client UI. In case of devices managed via Avast Business Hub/CloudCare, however, there is an additional option in the console's policy settings that lets you specify which packer files Avast should try to unpack during the scanning process (see SharePoint Protection if using the Hub, or SharePoint Protection if using CloudCare).