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5. Anti-Virus Scanner and
Daemon Process: Using
switches and profiles
5.1. Scanning settings
What to check? Where to check? How to handle in-
fected objects?…
Prior to checking for viruses in your computer you must define:
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Location to be checked
: system sectors including: Boot Sector,
Master Boot Record, Partition Table; files on local, network and
external disks (floppy, LS-120, CD).
The sector check function under your operating system may be not
available.
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