User Guide

Using the WinGuard Scanner
96 Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
• Download Scan. This module scans files that you download to your
system from the Internet. If you have enabled the Internet mail option in
the E-Mail Scan module, this will include e-mail and file attachments that
arrive via SMTP orPOP-3 e-mail systems,which include suche-mailclient
programs as Eudora Pro, Microsoft Outlook Express, NetScape mail, and
America Online mail.
• Internet Filter. This module looks for and blocks hostile Java classes and
ActiveXcontrolsfromdownloadingto and executingfromyoursystemas
you visit Internet sites. It can also block your browser from connecting to
potentially dangerous Internet sites that harbor malicious software.
IMPORTANT: To use the E-Mail Scan, Download Scan or Internet
Filter modules, you must install them from the Custom option in
Setup. To learn how to do so, see Chapter 2, “Installing Dr
Solomon’s Anti-Virus.”
• Security.Thismoduleprovidespasswordprotectionfortheremaining
WinGuard modules. You can protect any or all individual module
property pages and set a password to prevent unauthorized changes.
 NOTE: Because the WinGuard scanner runs continuously, you
should not install or run more than one WinGuard scanner on the
same workstation. Doingso cancause the scannersto interfere with
each others' operations.
Why use the WinGuard scanner?
The WinGuard scanner has unique capabilities that make it an integral part of
the Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus comprehensive anti-virus software security
package. These capabilities include:
• On-access scanning. This means that the scanner looks for viruses in files
that you open, copy, save, or otherwise modify, and files that you read
from or write to floppy disks and network drives. It therefore can detect
and stop viruses as soon as they appear on your system, including those
that arrive via e-mail or as downloads from the Internet. This means you
can make the WinGuard scanner both your first line of anti-virus defense,
and your backstop protection in between each scan operation that you
perform. The WinGuard scanner detects viruses in memory and as they
attempt to execute from within infected files.