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misused for malicious purposes later. This is an additional measure that
increases your computer security even more, however it can possibly block
legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.
·
Scan for Tracking Cookies
- (
off by default
): this parameter of the
Anti-
Spyware
component defines that cookies should be detected during scanning
(
HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific
information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their
electronic shopping carts
);
·
Scan inside archives
- (
off by default
): this parameters defines that the
scanning should check all files even if these are packed inside some type of
archive, e.g. ZIP, RAR, ...
·
Use Heuristics
- (
on by default
): heuristic analysis (
dynamic emulation of the
scanned object’s instructions in a virtual computer environment
) will be one of
the methods used for virus detection during scanning;
·
Scan system environment
- (
on by default
): scanning will also check the
system areas of your computer;
Then, you can change the scan configuration as follows:
·
Additional scan settings
- the link opens a new
Additional scan settings
dialog where you can specify the following parameters:
o
Computer shutdown options
- decide whether the computer should be
shut down automatically once the running scanning process is over.
Having confirmed this option (
Shutdown computer upon scan
completion
), a new option activates that allows the computer to shut
down even if it is currently locked (
Force shutdown if computer is
locked
).
o
Define file types for scanning
- further you should decide whether you
want to have scanned:
