User Guide

Installed Files
102 McAfee VirusScan
Table B-12. VirusScan Emergency Disk files
File Function Location
AUTOEXEC.BAT MS-DOS batch file.
This file leads you
through an immediate
scan operation, as
soon as the
Emergency Disk
finishes starting your
computer
A:\
BIOS.SYS System file A:\
BOOTSCAN.EXE McAfee VirusScan’s
command-line scanner.
This file conducts the
scan operation on your
hard disk
A:\
CLEAN.DAT McAfee VirusScan’s
virus definition file. This
file is a smaller,
specialized version of
the CLEAN.DAT file
that other VirusScan
components use. You
may
not use a
CLEAN.DAT file from
the VirusScan program
directory for the
Emergency Disk.
A:\
COMMAND.COM Command interpreter.
This file is a command
shell that responds to
command-line input
A:\
GETREPLY.EXE Application file. This file
processes output from
the scan operation
A:\
KERNEL.SYS System file A:\
LICENSE.DAT McAfee VirusScan’s
License file. The
command-line scanner
uses this to track use
eligibility for this
product
A:\