MetaDefender Drive v4.3.0

Released on Mar 14, 2025

A major release introducing new features, and enhancements.

New Feature

MetaDefender Drive now supports Centralized Scanning Profile, ensuring policy consistency while allowing on-site scanning policy modifications with remote approval using a one-time password (OTP). To enable this feature, users must set the BIOS time to the current time in the UTC+0 time zone.

Ad-hoc Configuration Changes: A Field Operator can locally modify scanning policies on an enrolled MetaDefender Drive, with remote approval from an Administrator or Approver via a one-time password (OTP) through Google Authenticator application.

An approver receives a one-time password via Google Authenticator to use for authorizing scan configuration modifications.

Field Operator input one-time-password from Approver for any scan configuration change requests.

Policy Enforcement: Enrolled MetaDefender Drive devices can only update engines and perform full scans, streamlining scanning operations.

Enhancements

• Selective Report Sync: Users can now manually choose which reports to sync with OPSWAT Central Management, providing greater control over report management.

• Optimized Support Package: The support package size has been reduced from 4–12GB to 2–6GB, accelerating troubleshooting and minimizing upload time.

Released on Mar 14, 2025

A major release introducing new features.

New Features

Starting from v3.7.0, MetaDefender Drive Toolkit now supports the setup, enrollment & unenrollment of MetaDefender Drive for Centralized Scanning Profile.

Enrollment for MetaDefender Drive

After booting MetaDefender Drive to be enrolled, the administrators open MetaDefender Drive Toolkit:

1. Go to Settings tab (1)

2. Select Lock MD Drive Software (2)

3. Click Set up Lock (3).

Administrator Setup:

1. Install Google Authenticator App on their mobile device.

2. Once installed, click Next.

Assign an Approver:

1. Enter name or alias of an authorized approver.

2. Click Next.

Complete MetaDefender Drive Enrollment, you have two options:

1. Scan the QR Code: Open the Google Authenticator app and scan the QR code displayed on the Drive Toolkit dashboard.

2. Manual Entry: Manually input the credential (account name and key) into your Google Authenticator app’s fields, then select Time-based.

Once accomplished, click Done.

Successfully lock MetaDefender Drive Confirmation: A prompt will appear upon completion.

Unenrollment for MetaDefender Drive

After booting the MetaDefender Drive the administrators wish to unenroll:

1. Go to Settings tab (1)

2. Select Lock MD Drive Software (2)

3. Click on icon (3).

Administrators can directly unenroll on Drive Toolkit by clicking Unenroll Device.

Click Yes.

A prompt will appear upon completion.