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5.4.
How to scan critical areas of
the computer
There are areas on your computer that are critical from a security perspective.
These are the targets of malicious programs aimed at damaging your operating
system, processor, memory, etc.
It is extremely important to protect these critical areas so that your computer
keeps running. There is a special virus scan task for these areas, which is lo-
cated in the program‟s main window in the
Scan
section.
Selecting the
Critical Areas
will display task settings: current security level, the
action to be applied to malicious objects. Here you can also select which critical
areas you want to scan, and immediately scan those areas.
To scan critical areas of your computer for malicious programs,
1. Select the
Critical Areas
task under
Scan
in the application main win-
dow.
2. Click the Start Scan
link.
When you do this, a scan of the selected areas will begin, and the details will be
shown in a special window. When you click the
Close
button, the window with
information about installation progress will be hidden. This will not stop the scan.
5.5.
How to scan a file, folder or disk
for viruses
There are situations when it is necessary to scan individual objects for viruses
but not the entire computer. For example, one of the hard drives, on which your
programs and games, e-mail databases brought home from work, and archived
files that came with e-mail are located, etc. You can select an object for scan
with the standard tools of the Microsoft Windows operating system (for example,
in the
Explorer
program window or on your
Desktop
, etc.).
To scan an object,
Place the cursor over the name of the selected object, open the
Microsoft Windows context menu by right-clicking, and select
Scan for
viruses
(see Figure 4).
