Tamper Protection

Tamper Protection

Preventing unauthorized uninstallation or modification of agents

You can protect Agent for Windows against unauthorized uninstallation or modification, by enabling the Password protection setting in a protection plan. This setting is available only when the Self-protection setting is enabled.

To enable Password protection

  1. In a protection plan, expand the Antivirus & Antimalware protection module (Active Protection module for Cyber Backup editions).
  2. Click Self-protection and ensure that the Self-protection switch is enabled.
  3. Enable the Password protection switch.
  4. In the window that opens, copy the password that you need to uninstall or modify the components of a protected Agent for Windows.
    This password is unique and you will not be able to recover it once you close this window. If you lose or forget this password, you can edit the protection plan and create a new password.
  5. Click Close.
  6. In the Self-protection pane, click Done.
  7. Save the protection plan.
Password protection will be enabled for the machines to which this protection plan is applied. Password protection is only available for Agent for Windows version 15.0.25851 or newer. The machines must be online.
You can apply a protection plan with Password protection enabled to a machine running macOS, but no protection will be provided. You cannot apply such a plan to a machine running Linux.
Also, you cannot apply more than one protection plan with Password protection enabled to the same Windows machine. To learn how to resolve a possible conflict, refer to Resolving plan conflicts.

To change the password in an existing protection plan

  1. In the protection plan, expand the Antivirus & Antimalware protection module (Active Protection module for Cyber Backup edition).
  2. Click Self-protection.
  3. Click Create new password.
  4. In the window that opens, copy the password that you need to uninstall or modify the components of a protected Agent for Windows.
    This password is unique and you will not be able to recover it once you close this window. If you lose or forget this password, you can edit the protection plan and create a new password.
  5. Click Close.
  6. In the Self-protection pane, click Done.
  7. Save the protection plan.

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