The Symantec Endpoint Protection client Auto-Protect Advanced Options Automatic enablement setting must be enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-42636	DTASEP016	SV-55364r1_rule		Medium

Description
For antivirus software to be effective, it must be running at all times, beginning from the point of the system's initial startup. Otherwise, the risk is greater for viruses, Trojans, and other malware infecting the system during that startup phase.

STIG	Date
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 Managed Client Antivirus	2014-10-01

Details

Check Text ( C-48907r1_chk )
Server check: From the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console: Select Policies -> Double-click the applied policy -> Under Windows Settings, Protection Technology, select Auto-Protect -> Select the Advanced tab -> Under Auto-Protect Reloading and Enablement, When Auto-Protect is disabled -> Ensure "Enable after:" is selected -> Ensure the time limit is set to 5 minutes or less. Criteria: If "When Auto-Protect is disabled, enable after:" is not selected, this is a finding. If "When Auto-Protect is disabled, enable after:" is selected and the time limit is not set to 5 minutes or less, this is a finding. On the client machine, use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: 32 bit: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\Filesystem\RealTimeScan 64 bit: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\Filesystem\RealTimeScan Criteria: If the value of APEOn is not 1 and the value of APESleep is not <= 5, this is a finding. If APESleep is > 5 or APEOn is not 1, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-48907r1_chk )

Server check: From the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console: Select Policies -> Double-click the applied policy -> Under Windows Settings, Protection Technology, select Auto-Protect -> Select the Advanced tab -> Under Auto-Protect Reloading and Enablement, When Auto-Protect is disabled -> Ensure "Enable after:" is selected -> Ensure the time limit is set to 5 minutes or less.

Criteria: If "When Auto-Protect is disabled, enable after:" is not selected, this is a finding.
If "When Auto-Protect is disabled, enable after:" is selected and the time limit is not set to 5 minutes or less, this is a finding.

On the client machine, use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:
32 bit:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\Filesystem\RealTimeScan
64 bit:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\Storages\Filesystem\RealTimeScan

Criteria: If the value of APEOn is not 1 and the value of APESleep is not <= 5, this is a finding. If
APESleep is > 5 or APEOn is not 1, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-48221r1_fix)
From the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console: Select Policies -> Double-click the applied policy -> Under Windows Settings, Protection Technology, select Auto-Protect -> Select the Advanced tab -> Under Auto-Protect Reloading and Enablement, When Auto-Protect is disabled -> Select "Enable after:" -> Set time limit to 5 minutes or less.