McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1, User Manual

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Removing Infections From Your System
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Clean.
Click this button to have the VirusScan application try to remove
the virus code from the infected file. If it cannot clean the file—either
because it has no remover or because the virus has damaged the file
beyond repair—it will record the incident in its log file and suggest
alternative responses.
In the example shown in Figure 3-6, the application failed to clean the
EICAR Test Virus—a mock “virus” written specifically to test whether
your anti-virus software installed correctly. Here,
Clean is not an available
response option. In most cases, you should delete such files and restore
them from backups.
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Delete.
Click this button to delete the file from your system immediately.
By default, the VirusScan application will record the name of the infected
file in its log so that you can restore the file from a backup copy.
• Move file to. Click this to open a dialog box that you can use to locate your
quarantine folder, or another suitable folder. Once you have located the
correct folder, click
OK to transfer the file to that location.
• Info. Click this to connect to the McAfee VirusScan Virus Information
Library. This choice does not take any action against the virus that the
application detected.
Responding when the E-Mail Scan extension detects a virus
NOTE: This feature only applies to exchange server e-mails.
The E-Mail Scan extension included with VirusScan software lets you scan
incoming Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Outlook e-mail messages for
viruses at your initiative. You can start it from within either e-mail client and
use it to supplement the continuous e-mail background scanning you get with
the VShield E-Mail Scan module. The E-Mail Scan module also offers the
ability to clean infected file attachments or stop the scan operation, a capability
that complements the continuous monitoring that the E-Mail Scan module
provides. In its initial configuration, E-Mail Scan extension will prompt you
for a response when it finds a virus (Figure 3-8).