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● At system startup
● Once
● Periodically
6. Click START SCAN and follow the Antivirus Scan wizard to complete the
scan. Depending on the locations to be scanned, the scan may take a
while. At the end of the scan, you will be prompted to choose the actions
to be taken on the detected files, if any.
7. If you want to, you can quickly rerun a previous custom scan by clicking
the corresponding entry in the available list.
Information on the scan options
You may find this information useful:
● If you are not familiar with some of the terms, check them in the glossary.
You can also find useful information by searching the internet.
● Scan files. You can set Bitdefender to scan all types of files or apps
(program files) only. Scanning all files provides best protection, while
scanning apps only can be used to perform a quicker scan.
Apps (or program files) are far more vulnerable to threat attacks than other
types of files. This category includes the following file extensions: 386;
a6p; ac; accda; accdb; accdc; accde; accdp; accdr; accdt; accdu; acl; acr;
action; ade; adp; air; app; as; asd; asp; awk; bas; bat; bin; cgi; chm; cla; class;
cmd; cnv; com; cpl; csc; csh; dat; dek; dld; dll; doc; docm; docx; dot; dotm;
dotx; drv; ds; ebm; esh; exe; ezs; fky; frs; fxp; gadget; grv; hlp; hms; hta; htm;
html; iaf; icd; ini; inx; ipf; isu; jar; js; jse; jsx; kix; laccdb; lnk; maf; mam; maq;
mar; mat; mcr; mda; mdb; mde; mdt; mdw; mem; mhtml; mpp; mpt; mpx;
ms; msg; msi; msp; mst; msu; oab; obi; obs; ocx; oft; ole; one; onepkg; ost;
ovl; pa; paf; pex; pfd; php; pif; pip; pot; potm; potx; ppa; ppam; pps; ppsm;
ppsx; ppt; pptm; pptx; prc; prf; prg; pst; pub; puz; pvd; pwc; py; pyc; pyo; qpx;
rbx; rgs; rox; rpj; rtf; scar; scr; script; sct; shb; shs; sldm; sldx; smm; snp; spr;
svd; sys; thmx; tlb; tms; u3p; udf; url; vb; vbe; vbs; vbscript; vxd; wbk; wcm;
wdm; wiz; wll; wpk; ws; wsf; xar; xl; xla; xlam; xlb; xlc; xll; xlm; xls; xlsb; xlsm;
xlsx; xlt; xltm; xltx; xlw; xml; xqt; xsf; xsn; xtp
● Scan options for archives. 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. However, it is
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