User Guide

McAfee VirusScan
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• Choosea volume orfolder on your system or onyour network that
you want VirusScan to examine for viruses.
Click to expand the listing for an item shown in the dialog box.
Click to collapse an item. You can select hard disks, folders or
files asscantargets, whe ther theyreside on your system or on other
computers on your network. You cannot select My Computer,
Network Neighborhood, or multiple volumes as scan targets from
VirusScan Classic—to choose these items as scan targets, you must
switch to VirusScan Advanced.
• Specifythetypesoffilesy ouwantVirusScantoexamine.Bydefault,
VirusScan looksfor virusesin files with the extensions .EXE, .COM,
.DO?, .XL?, .MD?, .VXD, .SYS, .BIN, .RTF, .OBD, and .DLL. Files
with .DO?, .XL?, .RTF, .MD?, and .OBD extensions are Microsoft
Office files, all of which can harbor macro virus infections. The ?
character is a wildcard that enables VirusScan to scan both
document and template files.
• Choosing Action options
When VirusScan detects a virus, it can respond eith er by asking you what
it should do with the infectedfile, or by automatically takingan action that
you determine aheadof time. Y ou can specify which response options you
want VirusScan to give you when it finds a virus, or which actions you
want it to take on its own. These response options include:
• Prompt User for A ction. Choose thisresponseif youexpectto be at
your computer when VirusScan scans your disk—VirusScan will
display an alert messagewhenit findsa virusand offer you thefull
range of its available response options.
• Move infected files automatically. Choose this response to have
VirusScan move infected files to a quarantine directory as soon as it
finds them. By default, VirusScan moves these files to a folder
named I NFECTED that it creates at the root level of the drive on
which it found the virus. For example, if VirusScan found an
infectedfileinT:\MY DOCUMENTSand you specified INFECTED
as the quarantine directory, VirusScan would copy the file to
T:\INFECTED.
You can enter a different name in the text box provided, or click
Browse to locate a suitable folder on your hard disk.
• Clean infected files automatically. Choose this response to tell
VirusScan toremove the virus code from the infected file as soon as
it finds it. If VirusScan cannot remove the virus, it will note the
incident in its log file.