Chapter
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5. Anti-Virus Scanner and
Daemon Process: Using
switches and profiles
5.1. Scanning settings
What to check? Where to check? How to handle
infected objects?…
Prior to checking for viruses in your computer you must define:
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Location to be checked
: system sectors including: Boot Sector,
Master Boot Record, Partition Table; files on local, network and
external disks (floppy, LS-120, CD).
The sector check function under your operating system may be not
available.
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Objects to be checked:
packed files, archives, mail databases,
local mail boxes of the most commonly used messaging
systems, files of various types.
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