User Guide

Using the WinGuard Scanner
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3. The items you can choose from the list are:
• Prompt for user action. Choose this response to have the System
Scan module ask you what to dowhen it finds a virus—the module
will display an alert message and offer you a set of possible
responses.
If your computer runs Windows 95 or Windows 98, choosing this
response displays the Prompt Type option (Figure 4-13). Here you
can choose the method you want the System Scan module to use to
alert you when it finds a virus.
Figure 4-13. Prompt Type area
Your choices are:
– BIOS. Click this button to see a full-screen text-mode alert
messagethat offersyou a rangeofresponseoptions,including
the option to continue without any action against the virus.
This mode alsobrings yoursystemto acompletehalt untilyou
choose a response option.
– GUI. Click thisbuttontoseeastandardgraphicalalertmessage
that also offersa range of response options. This range will not
include Continue access. As the prompt awaits your choice,
your system will continue with normal operations in the
background.
Next, choose which response options you want to see in that alert
message from the Possible Actions area at the bottom of the
property page. Each of the checkboxes you choose here causes an
option button to appear in an alert message that the module
displays when it finds a virus. Selecting Delete file, here, for
example, causes a Delete button or option to appear in the alert
message.Your choices are:
– Clean file. This option tells the module to try to remove the
virus code from the infected file. If you have its reporting
function enabled, it will record a log event each time it
successfully cleans, or fails to clean, an infected file.
– Delete file. This option tells the module to delete the infected
file immediately.