In this OfficeScan version, the default scan method for fresh installations is smart scan. This means that if you perform an OfficeScan server fresh installation and do not change the scan method on the web console, all clients that the server manages use smart scan.

If you upgrade the OfficeScan server from an earlier version and automatic client upgrade is enabled, all clients managed by the server still use the scan method configured before the upgrade. For example, upgrading from OfficeScan 8.x, which only supports conventional scan, means that all clients still use conventional scan upon upgrade. If you upgrade from OfficeScan 10, which supports smart scan and conventional scan, all upgraded clients that use smart scan continue to use smart scan and all clients using conventional scan continue to use conventional scan.