
The Antimalware Service monitors a directory in the file system for new definition files and for new engine files. * Endpoint Protection is refered to a Group of the Microsoft Antivirus products and includes: If valid updates are added to that directory, the Antimalware Service uses the updated versions of these files.

If you are an administrator, and you want to update the malware definition files on a client computer, you may want to use a fully updated client computer or extracted installation files as a source. In this situation, you use a file-copy procedure. To support this practice, the Antimalware Service monitors a directory in the file system for new definition files and for new engine files.
