User’s Guide
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Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
Choosing Detection options
If you chose to configure a task you just created, the VirusScan application
initially assumes that you want to scan your C: drive and your computer’s
memory, to look for boot sector viruses, and to restrict the files it scans only to
those susceptible to virus infection. If you chose to configure one of the default
tasks, your initial options will vary.
To modify the initial task options, follow these steps:
1. Choose which parts of your system or your network you want the
VirusScan application to examine for viruses. You can:
•
Add scan targets.
Click
Add
to open the Add Scan Item dialog box
(
Figure 6-9
).
Figure 6-9. Add Scan Item dialog box
To scan your entire computer or a subset of the drives on your
system or your network, click the
Select item to scan
button, then:
a. Choose a scan target from the list provided. Your choices are:
–
My Computer
. This tells the application to scan all drives
physically attached to your computer or logically mapped
via Windows Explorer to a drive letter on your computer.
–
All removable media
. This tells the application to scan
only floppy disks, CD-ROM discs, Iomega ZIP disks, or
similar storage devices physically attached to your
computer.
–
All fixed disks
. This tells the application to scan hard
disks physically connected to your computer.
–
All network drives
. This tells the application to scan all
drives logically mapped via Windows Explorer to a drive
letter on your computer.
b. Click
OK
to close the dialog box.
Summary of Contents for VIRUSSCAN 5.1
Page 1: ...McAfee VirusScan User s Guide Version 5 1 ...
Page 16: ...Preface xvi McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 30: ...About VirusScan Software 30 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 52: ...Installing VirusScan Software 52 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 80: ...Removing Infections From Your System 80 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 185: ...User s Guide 185 Using the VirusScan application ...
Page 186: ...Using the VirusScan application 186 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 222: ...Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks 222 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 246: ...Using Specialized Scanning Tools 246 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 262: ...About Safe Sound 262 McAfee VirusScan ...
Page 266: ...About Quarantine 266 McAfee VirusScan ...