User Guide

Using Specialized Scanning Tools
292 Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
2. Select the Log to file checkbox.
By default, the E-Mail Scan extension writes log information to the file
MAILSCAN.TXT in the Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus program directory.
You can enteradifferent namein the textboxprovided, orclick Browse
to locate a suitable file elsewhere on your hard disk or on your network.
You may use a different file, but the text file must already exist. The
extension will not create a new file.
 NOTE: If you choose a different location for your log file on a
Windows NT Workstation v4.0 or Windows 2000 Professional
system, verify that you choose a location to which you have
user-level access. Because the E-Mail Scan extension runs with the
same access rights that your e-mail client program does, it cannot
write to this log file correctly if the file exists in a location that
requires Administrator access rights, and you have logged in as a
user to run your e-mail client program. Instead, the E-Mail Scan
extension will give you an “Activity Log Access Error” message
when it detects a virus.
3. Tominimizethelogfilesize,selecttheLimitsizeoflogfiletocheckbox,
then enter a value for the file size, in kilobytes, in the text box provided.
If you do not select this checkbox, the log file can grow to as large a size
as your disk space permits.
Enter a value between 10
KB and 999KB. By default, the extension limits
thefilesizeto100
KB.If the data inthe log exceedsthe filesizeyouset, the
extension erases the existing log and begins again from the point at
whichitleftoff.
4. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the information you want the
extension to record in its log file. Each checkbox you select here causes
theextensiontorecordthisinformation,usuallywhenthescanoperation
ends, or when you shut your system down:
• Virus detection.Selectthischeckboxto havethelogfilerecordhow
many viruses the extension finds during each scan operation. Clear
the checkbox to leave this information out of the log file.
• Virus cleaning. Select this checkbox to have the log file recordhow
many infected files the extension cleans—or tries to clean—during
each scan operation. Clear this checkbox to leave this information
out of the log file.