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The
Scan settings
section offers a list of scanning parameters that can be optionally
switched on/off:
·
Automatically heal/remove infection
- (
on by default
): if a virus is identified
during scanning it can be healed automatically if a cure is available. If the
infected file cannot be healed automatically, the infected object will be moved
to the
Virus Vault
, or deleted.
·
Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats
- (
on by
default
): check to activate the
Anti-Spyware
engine, and scan for spyware
as well as for viruses.
Spyware
represents a questionable malware category:
even though it usually represents a security risk, some of these programs can
be installed intentionally. We recommend to keep this feature activated as it
increases your computer security.
·
Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs
- (
off by default
):
mark to detect extended package of
spyware
: programs that are perfectly ok
and harmless when acquired from the manufacturer directly, but can be
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
- this parameter of the
Anti-Spyware
component
defines that cookies should be detected; (
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
- this parameters defines that scanning should check all
files even those stored inside archives, e.g. ZIP, RAR, ...
·
Use Heuristics
- 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
- scanning will also check the system areas of
your computer.
Further you should decide whether you want to have scanned
·
All file types
with the possibility of defining exceptions from scanning by
providing a list of comma separated file extensions that should not be scanned;
or
·
Selected file types
- you can specify that you want to scan only files that
are possibly infectable (
files that cannot get infected will not be scanned, for
instance some plain text files, or some other non-executable files
), including
media files (
video, audio files - if you leave this box unchecked, it will reduce
the scanning time even more, because these files are often quite large and
are not too likely to be infected by a virus
). Again, you can specify by
extensions which files are those that should always be scanned.
