McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite, User Manual

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Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
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Clear the checkbox to leave this information out of the log file.
• Date and time . Select this checkbox to have the log file record the
date and time at which the software starts each scan operation. Clear
this checkbox to leave this information out of the log file.
• 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.
To see the contents of the log file from VirusScan Console, select the task
you created in the task list, then choose
View Activity Log
from the
Task
menu. You can also start the VirusScan application itself, then choose
View Activity Log from the File menu.
6. Click the Exclusion tab to choose additional VirusScan options. To save
your changes without closing the VirusScan Properties dialog box, click
Apply . To save your changes and return to the Console window, click
OK
. To return to the Console window without saving your changes, click
Cancel .
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NOTE: Clicking Cancel will not undo any changes you already
saved by clicking Apply .
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 209 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.