User Guide

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McAfee VirusScan
McAfee VirusScan provides complete desktop protection with an array of
scanning features that keep your s ystem clean, mean, and virus-free. Using
onlythelatestt echnolog y,VirusScandetects100%ofvirusesincludingfloppy
disks, Internet downloads, email attachments, Intranets, shared files,
CD-ROM, and online services (even inside t he most popular compressed file
types).
• Hunter, VirusScan’s award-winning scanning engine, includes
ground-breaking variant detection and heuristic technology that detects
even new unknown macro viruse s be fore t hey have a chance to inflict
damage.
• SecureCast ensures that your virus signature files are always the latest.
New updates are pushed d irectly to your des ktop the moment they ar e
released.
• AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Research T eam) staffs more than 85
experiencedv irusresearchersaroundthew orld,providingc ustomerswith
unparalleled follow-the-sun su pport. AVERT even makes hourly beta
virus s ignature files availab le to all custom e rs 24 hours a day.
McAfee Utilities
McAfee Utilities helps you keep your PC w orking at o p timum effic iency and
speed. You can diagn ose and repair your system and appli cation s oftware;
create a recovery di sk and image s napshots o f critical sectors of your hard
drives; avoid lost data during applicat ion crashes; create backup sets
automatically or interactively; back up to a protected volume file, which
makes your data recoverable when it otherwise would not be.
From the moment you ins tall McAf ee Utilities , it begins protecting your PC.
First, by helping create a recovery diskthat you can use if problems arise.
Second, by activating Bomb Shel ter, which immediately protects you against
losingunsavedinformationintheeventthatanapplicationcrashes.Next,you
can create a backup set of your valuable data w ith Safe & Sound .
Afterrepairing andprotectin g your system, yo u’re readyto use other McAfee
Utilities to clean and optimize, prev ent and pro tect, and secure and manage
inform ation .
McAfee Utilities can diagnose,r epair, and protect your system in the
follo wing ways:
• Di sc ove r shows a wealth of information about your hardware and
software.Italsoletsyourundiagnosticsandbenchmarktests.