D E F I N I N G S E T T I N G S
will be inactive and therefore invisible to you, but some day the virus
may break loose and ruin your system.
To enable
the extracting engine
:
1. Type
Yes
in the
Archives
line of the profile. Otherwise, type
No
.
2. Type
Yes
in the
SelfExtArchives
line of the profile (for checking
in self-extracting archives). Otherwise, type
No
.
This
Archives
parameter corresponds to the command line switch
-A[-
]
. The switch
-A
disables and the switch
-A-
enables the extracting
engine.
Scanner does not extract password protected archives. Scanner
does not delete viruses from archives, it only detects them.
The unpacking engine generates temporary files in the directory de-
fined by the
TempPath
parameter in the
[TempFiles]
section of a profile
(see subchapter 5.4.2).
The extracting engine noticeably slows down the
Scanner scanning
rate. Therefore, we recommend enabling this engine only if the
probability that your archived files are infected is high.
5.3.2.6. Mail databases and plain mail
files
You can enable your Scanner to check for viruses in mail databases and
plain mail files.
The mail databases and especially plain mail files scanning modes no-
ticeably slow down the Scanner scanning rate. Therefore we do not rec-
ommend their use in a regular check for viruses.
Scanner checks mail databases and plain mail files but does not de-
lete viruses from them.
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