Product guide

Reports tab
Enable logging to track activity on your network and record which settings you used to detect
and respond to any potential threat that the scanner found.
Option definitions
DefinitionOption
Enable activity logging.Log to file
Accept the default location for the log file or specify a new location.
The default log name is OnDemandScanLog.txt .
Log file location
The default location is: <drive>:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection\ .
The default location may vary depending on which operating system you are
using.
Limit the size of the log file. Accept the default size (1 MB) or set a size from
1 MB to 999 MB. If the data in the log file exceeds the file size you set, the
Log file size
oldest 20 percent of the entries are deleted and new data is appended to the
file.
Select the format of the log file. Default = Unicode (UTF8). Log file format
• Unicode (UTF8) — Recommended if you are storing eastern text (every
character is one or two bytes), or sharing information within a multi-national
organization.
• Unicode (UTF16) — Recommended if you are storing eastern text (every
character is one or two bytes), or sharing information within a multi-national
organization.
• ANSI — Recommended if you are storing western text (every character
is one byte), we recommend using ANSI format.
What to log in addition to
scanning activity
• Session settings — Record the properties for each scanning session in
the log file.
• Session summary — Record a summary of the scanner’s actions during
each scanning session in the log file. Summary information includes the
number of files scanned, the number and type of detections, the number
of files cleaned or deleted, and other information.
• Failure to scan encrypted files — Record the name of encrypted files
that the scanner failed to scan.
Alert when a cookie detection occurs — Send alerts when cookies are
detected. This includes generating ePolicy Orchestrator alerts, detection
Alert when a cookie detection
occurs
notifications, recording detections in the activity log if you enabled activity
logging on the Reports tab, and counting detections in the scan statistics.
If you deselect this option, ePolicy Orchestrator does not generate alerts, but
detections will still be recorded in the activity log if you enabled activity logging
on the Reports tab, and counted in the scan statistics
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