What is the difference between the Archive Extraction Engine V.S. Metascan Antivirus engines extraction?

Description:

The OPSWAT Archive Extraction engine works independently from the Metascan Antivirus engines.

Archive Extraction Engine

Location:

Inventory > Modules > Utilities > Archive Extraction

Functionality:

• Supports more file types than individual Metascan Antivirus engine extractors.

• OPSWAT integrates 7-Zip into its Archive Engine to facilitate efficient archive extraction, for more details: Differences between OPSWAT Archive engine and 7-zip

• Generally faster than using individual Metascan Antivirus engine-based extractions.

• Recommended Archive Extraction method.

• Better performance and GUI visibility. Shows the complete recursive path and breakdown for extracted files.

• Configurable extraction limits that can be set globally for each file.

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Metascan Antivirus Engines

Location:

Inventory > Modules > Metascan > click into individual engines

Functionality:

• Antivirus engines can extract files independently, this results in sequential processing, where the same archive may be extracted multiple times by different engines, this may lead to performance degradation.

• Best use if you are unable to enable the Archive Extraction Engine.

• Limited visibility, the GUI currently does not show the extracted files by each engine.

• Archive limits are set by the Antivirus vendor. Some contain configurable limits, whereas some do not have a setting.

Examples:

Ahnlab:

Avira: