McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1, User Manual

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Using the VirusScan application
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For the VirusScan application to protect your system, you must tell it:
• what you want it to scan
• what you want it to do if it finds a virus
• how it should let you know when it finds a virus
• whether you want it to keep track of its actions
• which items you don't want it to scan for viruses
A series of property pages in the VirusScan window controls the options for
each task—click each tab to set up the application for your task. To choose
from a simpler set of configuration options, move to the VirusScan Classic
interface. Choose
Classic from the Tools menu in the VirusScan Advanced
window.
To protect the settings you've chosen from unauthorized changes, choose
Password Protect from the Tools menu to open the Password Protection
dialog box.
You can start a scan operation with the options you've chosen at any
point—simply 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 Detection options
VirusScan software initially assumes that you want to scan all hard disks on
your computer, including those mapped from network drives, and to restrict
the files it scans only to those susceptible to virus infection (Figure 5-7).
Figure 5-9. VirusScan Advanced window - Detection page