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Using the Dr Solomon's
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Anti-Virus application
What is the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application?
Dr Solomon's desktop anti-virus products use two general methods to protect
your system. The first method, background scanning, operates continuously,
watching for viruses as you use your computer for everyday tasks. In the Dr
Solomon's Anti-Virus product, the VShield scanner performs this function. To
learn more about the VShield scanner, see
Scanner."
The second method puts you in charge. You decide when and where the
software should look for viruses, then you tailor and run scan operations that
suit your needs. You can run successive or concurrent scan operations, create
different settings and specify different scan targets for each operation, and
save your settings in exportable files for future use.
You might also see other materials identify this second method as
"on-demand scanning." The term "on demand" means that you as a user
control when the application starts and ends a scan operation, which targets it
examines, what it does when it finds a virus, or any other aspect of the scan
operation. Other Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus components, by contrast, operate
automatically or according to a schedule you set.
The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus name applies both to the entire set of desktop
anti-virus program components described in this User's Guide, and to a
particular component of that set: SCAN32.EXE, or the Dr Solomon's
Anti-Virus application. The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application operates in
two modes:
• The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus "Classic" interface. This mode gets you up
and running quickly, with a minimum of configuration options, but with
the full power of the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus anti-virus scanning engine;
• The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Advanced interface. This mode adds
flexibility to the program's configuration options, including the ability to
run more than one scan operation concurrently.
This chapter describes how to use Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus in both its Classic
and Advanced modes.
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