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Removing Infections From Your System
74 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software
Viewing virus information
Clicking
Info
in any of the virus response dialog boxes will connect you to the
Network Associates online Virus Information Library, provided you have an
Internet connection and web browsing software available on your computer
(
Figure 3-10 ).
Figure 3-10. Network Associates Virus Information Library page
The Virus Information Library has a collection of documents that give you a
detailed overview of each virus that VirusScan software can detect or clean,
along with information about how the virus infects and alters files, and the
sorts of payloads it deploys. The site lists the most prevalent or riskiest viruses,
provides a search engine you can use to search for particular virus
descriptions alphabetically or by virus name, displays prevalence tables,
technical documents, and white papers, and gives you access to technical data
you can use to remove viruses from your system.
To connect directly to the library, visit the site at:
http://vil.nai.com/villib/alpha.asp
You can also connect directly to the Library from the VirusScan Console
—choose
Virus List from the View menu in the Console window. To learn
more about the Console, see Chapter 6, “Creating and Configuring Scheduled
Tasks.”
The Library is part of the McAfee AVERT website, which you can visit at:
http://www.nai.com/asp_set/anti_virus/avert/intro.asp
The AVERT website has a wealth of virus-related data and software.