User Guide

Setting Policy for On-Access Scanning
34 McAfee VirusScan TC
• Select Network drives to include network resources that are
accessed by your system. This is a convenient way to extend virus
protection to a resource that does not have virus protection.
However,itcanhaveanegativeeffectonoverallperformanceofthe
system that is running the scan.
• Select Compressed files to include executable files that were
compressed using the following utilities:
– If you selectedAll files, every compressed filewillbescanned.
NOTE: When the VirusScan TC product is
shipped,thelistofDefaultfilesisidenticalwith
the listof Custom files. However, overtime, as
you upgrade the scanning engine, the list of
Defaultfilesmaygrow orshrinkdependingon
the most current research on the susceptibility
of certain file types to virus infection.
Upgrading the scanning engine will not affect
the list of Custom files, which is under the
control of the user.
By default, the on-access scanner examines files
with these extensions:
PkLite
LZexe
MS Compressed
Ice
Cryptcom
Com2Exe
Diet
Teledisk
??_
001
002
386
ACM
ADT
APP
ARC
ARJ
ASP
AX?
BAT
BIN
BO?
CAB
CDR
CHM
CLA
CMD
CNV
COM
CPL
CSC
DEV
DLL
DOC
DOT
DRV
EXE
GMS
GZ?
HLP
HT?
ICE
IM?
INI
JS?
LZH
MB?
MD?
MPP
MPT
MSG
MSO
OBD
OBT
OCX
OLE
OTM
OV?
PCI
POT
PP?
QLB
QPW
RAR
REG
RTF
SCR
SHS
SMM
SYS
TAR
TD0
TGZ
TLB
TSP
VBS
VS?
VXD
VWP
WBK
WIZ
WPC
WPD
WSI
XL?
XML
XSL
XTP