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Scan settings
The
Scan settings
section offers a list of scanning parameters that can be optionally
switched on/off:
·
Automatically heal/remove infection
(
on by default
) - if a virus is identified
during scanning it can be healed automatically if a cure is available. If the
infected file cannot be healed automatically, the infected object will be moved
to the
Virus Vault
.
·
Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats
(
on by
default
) - check to activate the
Anti-Spyware
engine, and scan for spyware
as well as for viruses.
Spyware
represents a questionable malware category:
even though it usually represents a security risk, some of these programs can
be installed intentionally. We recommend to keep this feature activated as it
increases your computer security.
·
Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs
(
off by default
) -
mark to detect extended package of
spyware
: programs that are perfectly ok
and harmless when acquired from the manufacturer directly, but can be
misused for malicious purposes later. This is an additional measure that
increases your computer security even more, however it can possibly block
legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.
·
Scan for Tracking Cookies
(
off by default
) - this parameter of the
Anti-
Spyware
component defines that cookies should be detected; (
HTTP cookies
are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information
about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic
shopping carts
)
·
Scan inside archives
(
off by default
) - this parameters defines that scanning
should check all files stored inside archives, e.g. ZIP, RAR, ...
·
Use Heuristics
(
on by default
) - heuristic analysis (
dynamic emulation of the
scanned object’s instructions in a virtual computer environment
) will be one of
the methods used for virus detection during scanning;
·
Scan system environment
(
on by default
) - scanning will also check the
system areas of your computer.
·
Enable thorough scanning
(
off by default
) - in specific situations (
suspicious
of your computer being infected
) you may check this option to activate the
most thorough scanning algorithms that will scan even those areas of your
computer that can hardly get infected, just to be absolutely sure. Remember
though that this method is rather time consuming.
Further you should decide whether you want to have scanned
·
All file types
with the possibility of defining exceptions from scanning by
