Product guide

• Help — Access online Help topics, the Threat Library on the Avert Labs website, the
Submit a Sample website, and the Technical Support website. You can also repair the
product installation and view the About dialog box for copyright information and which
versions of the product, license, definition files, scanning engine, extra driver, and patch
are installed.
NOTE: Each item on the menu has an associated shortcut key. The shortcut key is underlined
for each item. These shortcut keys might not be available on some operating systems unless
you use the keyboard (F10 or ALT) to access the menus.
• Toolbar — Use the icons to access these commonly used commands:
• Display properties of the selected task.
• Start the selected task.
• Stop the selected task.
• Copy the selected task.
• Paste the selected task.
• Delete the selected task.
• Configure alerting properties.
• Launch the event viewer.
• Access the Information Library on the Avert Labs website.
• Connect to a remote computer if you have administrator rights.
• Create a new on-demand scan.
• Task list — Displays the default tasks and any new tasks that you create as well as the
status and last result for each task.
• Status bar — Displays the status of the current activity.
Using right-click features
Use right-click features for quick access to commonly used actions such as creating new tasks,
viewing task statistics and logs, opening task property pages, scanning a specific file or folder,
or performing an immediate update task.
Feature descriptions
ExamplesDescriptionLocation
Right-click the VirusScan Console to display right-click
features. These features vary depending on whether
The console • In the console, right-click a task to
access its properties. Depending on
you selected a task in the task list and which task you
select.
which task you select, you might also be
able to start, stop, enable or disable it,
and view statistics and the activity log.
In some cases, you can also rename or
delete a task.
• Right-click a blank area in the console
to create a new scan or update task.
Perform an immediate scan on a file or
folder that you suspect is threatened.
Right-click a selected file or folder to perform an
immediate Full Scan of that item. You can select an
action for the scan:
Windows
Explorer
When you start the scan, the on-demand
scanner is invoked directly with all scan• Clean - Report and clean the detected item.
settings enabled. Select the action option.
• Continue - Report the detection and continue
scanning.
Supplemental Information
Accessing user interface options
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i50