User Guide

Administrator’s Guide 41
Setting Policy for On-Access Scanning
2. DeselectInherit to change the product’s current configuration settings.
See the NOTE on page 32 for more informationabout this step.
3. Select Logtofileto save the log in a file that you specify.
By default, the scanner writes log information to the file VSHLOG.TXT
in the VirusScan programdirectory.The program creates thedefaultfile
in the default path.
4. To minimize the size of the log file, click Limit size of log file to,then
enter a value for the file size, in kilobytes, in the text box. If you do not
select this checkbox, the log file can continue growing without any limit.
Enter a value between 10
KB and 32767KB. By default, the scanner limits
the file size to 1024
KB.
TIP: If the data in the log exceeds the file size you set, the oldest 25
percentofthe logtextisdeletedto make roomfor new information.
If you place no size restriction on the log file, you run the risk of it
consuming all available space on the drive where it is located.
5. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the information you want to
record in the log file. Deselect any box to omit the information from the
log file. The options are:
Virus detection
Records detection of a virus.
Virus cleaning
Records the scanner’s attempt to clean an
infected file.
Infected files
deleted
Records deletion of an infected file.
Infected files
moved
Records the relocation of an infected file to the
quarantine folder.
Session
settings
Records the configuration settings that were in
use when the VirusScan TC scanner was started.
Session
summary
Summarizetheactionsthatthescanner took. The
log records all the options you select on this tab.
Date and time
Records the date and time when the reported
event occurred.
User name
Records the name of the user that accessed the
file that precipitated the action being reported.