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4Using the WinGuard Scanner
What does the WinGuard scanner do?
Dr Solomon’s desktopanti-virusproducts use twogeneral methodsto protect
your system. The first method, background scanning, operates continuously,
watching for viruses as you use your computer for everyday tasks. In the Dr
Solomon’sAnti-Virusproduct,theWinGuardscannerperformsthisfunction.
A second method allows you to initiate your own scan operations. The Dr
Solomon’sAnti-Virusapplicationgenerallyhandlesthesetasks.Tolearnmore
about the application, see Chapter 5, “Using the Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus
application.”
Depending on how you configure it, the WinGuard scanner can monitor any
filethatarrivesonorleavesyoursystem,whetheronfloppydisk,overyour
network, in file attachments that accompany e-mail messages, or from the
Internet. The scanner looks for viruses as you open, save, copy, rename or
otherwise modify your files, and it probes your computer's memory during
any file activity. The scanner starts when you start your computer, and stays
in memory until you shut it or your system down. The scanner also includes
optionalfeatures thatguard against hostileJava appletsand ActiveXcontrols,
and that keep your computer from connecting to dangerous Internet sites.
The WinGuard scanner consists of five related modules, each of which has a
specializedfunction.Youcanconfiguresettingsforallofthesemodulesin the
WinGuard Properties dialog box. The WinGuard modules are:
• SystemScan.Thismodule looks forvirusesonyourharddiskasyouwork
with yourcomputer. It tracks files as your system or other computers read
filesfromyourharddiskorwritefilestoit.Itcanalsoscanfloppydisksand
network drives mapped to your system.
• E-MailScan.Thismodulescanse-mailmessagesandmessageattachments
thatyoureceiveviaintraofficee-mailsystems,and viatheInternet.It scans
yourMicrosoft ExchangeorOutlookmailboxon your MicrosoftExchange
server, and older cc:Mail e-mail systems.
It works in conjunction with the Download Scan module to scan Internet
mail that arrives via Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) or Post Office
Protocol (POP-3) sources.