McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1, User Manual

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User’s Guide 235
Using Specialized Scanning Tools
c. Enter a subject for the message that conveys its urgency, then add
any comments you want to make in the body of the message, below
a standard infection notice that the extension itself will supply. You
may add up to 1024 characters of text.
d. Click OK to save the message.
Whenever it detects a virus, the extension will send a copy of this
message to each person who sends you e-mail with an infected
attachment. It fills in the recipient’s address with information found
in the original message header, and identifies the virus and the
affected file in the area immediately below the subject line. If you
have activated its report feature, the extension also logs each
instance when it sends an alert message.
e. To send an e-mail message to warn others—a network
administrator, for example—about an infected attachment, select
the
Send alert mail to user checkbox in the Alert property page.
You can then compose a standard reply in the same way you did in
Step a through Step d above. In this case, however, you can fill out
both the To: and the Cc: text boxes.
Whenever it detects a virus, the E-Mail Scan extension sends a copy
of this message to all of the addresses that you entered for this
message.
4. Select the Sound audible alert checkbox to have the extension beep
when it finds an infected file.
You can change the setting for this option only if you select Prompt for
user action in the Action property page. Otherwise, the checkbox will
display and use the setting it had when you last chose the
Prompt for
user action item.
The extension will sound the standard system warning beep or .WAV file
you have your computer set to play.
5. Select the
Display custom message
checkbox to have the extension add
a custom message to the alert box it displays when it finds an infected
file.
As with the audible alert, you can change the setting for this option only
if you choose
Prompt for user action in the Action property page. If you
do not choose that item in the Action page, no alert box will appear and
you will not see a custom message even if you select this checkbox.
6. Enter the message you want the extension to display in the text box
provided. You can enter a maximum of 250 characters here.