User Guide

User’s Guide 291
Using Specialized Scanning Tools
7. Click the Report tab to choose additionalE-Mail Scan extensionoptions.
To save your changes without closing the E-Mail Scan Properties dialog
box, click Apply.Tosaveyourchangesandclosethedialogbox,click
OK. To close the dialog box without saving your changes, click Cancel.
 NOTE: Clicking Cancel will not undo any changes you already
saved by clicking Apply.
Choosing Report options
E-Mail Scan lists its current settings and summarizes all of the actions it takes
during its scanning operations in a log file called MAILSCAN.TXT. You can
have E-Mail Scan write its log to this file, or you can use any text editor to
createa textfile forE-MailScantouse. You can then open andprintthelogfile
for later review from within E-Mail Scan or from a text editor.
You can use the MAILSCAN.TXT file to track virus activity on your system
and to note which settings the extension used to detect and respond to
infectionsit found.You can alsousetheincidentreportsrecordedin thefileto
determine which files you need toexamine inquarantine, ordelete fromyour
computer.
To set E-Mail Scan to record its actions in a log file, follow these steps:
1. Click the Report tab in the E-Mail Scan Properties dialog box to display
the correct property page (Figure 8-6).
Figure 8-6. E-Mail Scan Properties dialog box - Report page