McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1, User Manual

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Removing Infections From Your System
70 McAfee VirusScan
• Contact addresses and other information for submitting questions, virus
samples, and other data
• Virus definition updates-this includes daily beta .DAT file updates,
EXTRA.DAT files, updated Emergency .DAT files, current scan engine
versions, regular weekly .DAT and SuperDAT updates, and new
incremental virus definition files (.UPD)
• Beta and “first look” software
Viewing file information
If you right-click a file listed either in the VirusScan main window or the
E-Mail Scan window (see Figure 3-9), then choose
File Info from the shortcut
menu that appears, VirusScan software will open an Infected Item Information
dialog box that names the file, lists its type and size in bytes, gives its creation
and modification dates, and describes its attributes (Figure 3-11).
Figure 3-11. Infected File Information property page
Submitting a virus sample
If you have a suspicious file that you believe contains a virus, or experience a
system condition that might result from an infection—but VirusScan software
has not detected a virus—McAfee VirusScan Software recommends that you
send a sample to its anti-virus research team for analysis. When you do so, be
sure to start your system in the apparently infected state—don’t start your
system from a clean floppy disk.