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4. Scroll down on the window to configure the scan settings as needed.
Information on the scan options
You may find this information useful:
● Scan only applications. You can set Bitdefender to scan only accessed
apps.
● Scan potentially unwanted applications. Select this option to scan for
unwanted applications. A potentially unwanted application (PUA) or
potentially unwanted program (PUP) is a software that usually comes
bundled with freeware software and will display pop-ups or install a toolbar
in the default browser. Some of them will change the homepage or the
search engine, others will run several processes in the background slowing
down the PC or will display numerous ads. These programs can be installed
without your consent (also called adware) or will be included by default
in the express installation kit (ad-supported).
● Scan network shares. To safely access a remote network from your
computer, we recommend you to keep the Scan network shares option
enabled.
● Scan inside archives. Scanning inside archives is a slow and
resource-intensive process, which is therefore not recommended for
real-time protection. Archives containing infected files are not an immediate
threat to the security of your system. The threat can affect your system
only if the infected file is extracted from the archive and executed without
having real-time protection enabled.
If you decide on using this option, turn it on, and then drag the slider along
the scale to set a maximum accepted size limit (in MB) of archives to be
scanned on-access.
● Scan emails. To prevent threats from being downloaded to your computer,
Bitdefender automatically scans incoming and outgoing emails.
Though not recommended, you can disable email threat scan to increase
system performance. If you disable the corresponding scan options, the
emails and files received will not be scanned, thus allowing infected files
to be saved to your computer. This is not a major threat because real-time
protection will block the threat when the infected files are accessed
(opened, moved, copied or executed).
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