User Guide
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Getting Started
Welcome to McAfee VirusScan. The McAfee VirusScan Professional Edition
contains McAfee VirusScan, plus McAfee SpamKiller and McAfee Shredder. See
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to learn more about these additional programs.
NOTE
This is only a brief overview. For detailed information, consult
the online help for VirusScan, SpamKiller, or Shredder.
McAfee VirusScan is an anti-virus subscription service offering comprehensive,
reliable, and up-to-date virus protection. Powered by award-winning McAfee
scanning technology, VirusScan protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses,
malicious scripts, and hybrid attacks.
With it, you get the following features:
ActiveShield
— Scan files when they are accessed by either you or your computer.
Scan
— Search for viruses and potentially unwanted programs in hard drives,
floppy disks, and individual files and folders.
Quarantine
— Encrypt and temporarily isolate infected and suspicious files in the
quarantine folder until an appropriate action can be taken.
Hostile activity detection
— Monitor your computer for virus-like activity caused by
malicious scripts and worm-like activity.
New features
This version of VirusScan provides the following new features:
Scanning for potentially unwanted programs
VirusScan can scan for potentially unwanted programs (including spyware,
adware, and dialers) during manual scanning, outbound e-mail scanning,
instant messaging (IM), via the Windows Explorer shortcut menu, and via the
Microsoft Outlook toolbar icon.
Scanning of large outbound attachments
To address increased use of broad-band Internet connections and service
providers increasing e-mail storage and transmission sizes, VirusScan is now
optimized to scan large e-mail attachments without interfering with e-mail
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