# guardduty-malware-protection-enabled
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Checks if Malware Protection is enabled for an Amazon GuardDuty detector in your account. The rule is NON\$1COMPLIANT if the Malware Protection feature in Amazon GuardDuty is not enabled for your account. 



**Identifier:** GUARDDUTY\$1MALWARE\$1PROTECTION\$1ENABLED

**Resource Types:** AWS::GuardDuty::Detector

**Trigger type:** Periodic

**AWS Region:** All supported AWS regions except Asia Pacific (New Zealand), China (Beijing), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), China (Ningxia) Region

**Parameters:**

None  

## AWS CloudFormation template
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To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see [Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates](aws-config-managed-rules-cloudformation-templates.md).