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Using the VirusScan application
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• User name . Select this checkbox to have the log file record the name
of the user logged into the workstation as the software starts each
scan operation. Clear this checkbox to leave this information out of
the log file.
5. Click the Exclusion tab to choose additional VirusScan configuration
options.
To start a scan operation immediately with just the options you’ve
chosen, click
Scan Now . To save your changes as default scan options,
choose Save As Default from the File menu or click New Scan . To save
your settings in a new file, choose Save Settings from the File menu,
name your file in the dialog box that appears, then click
Save
.
Choosing Exclusion options
Many of the files stored on your computer are not vulnerable to virus
infection. Scan operations that examine these files can take a long time and
produce few results. You can speed up scan operations by telling the
VirusScan application to look only at susceptible file types (see
“Choosing
Detection options” on page 175 for details), or you can tell the application to
ignore entire files or folders that you know cannot become infected.
Once you scan your system thoroughly, you can exclude the files and folders
that do not change or that are not normally vulnerable to virus infection. You
can also rely on the VShield scanner to provide you with protection between
scheduled scan operations. Regular scan operations that examine all areas of
your computer, however, provide you with the best virus defense.
To prevent the application from scanning files that do not get infected, you can
identify which disks, folders, or individual files you want to exclude from scan
operations in an exclusion list. By default, the VirusScan application does not
scan the Recycle Bin because Windows will not run items stored there. This
item, therefore, will appear in the exclusion list when you first open the
window.
Each entry in the exclusion list displays the path to the item, notes whether the
application will also exclude any nested folders within the target, and explains
whether the application will exclude the item when it scans files, when it scans
your hard disk boot sector, or both.
By default, you can exclude up to 100 unique scan targets. To change this
number, open the VirusScan control panel, click the Components tab, then
enter a new figure in the
Maximum number of exclude items text box. To
learn more about how to use the VirusScan control panel, see “Understanding
the VirusScan control panel” on page 277 .