McAfee DR SOLOMON S ANTI-VIRUS 8.5 User Manual page 242

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
Once you scan your system thoroughly, you can exclude the files and folders
that do not change or that are not normally vulnerable to virus infection. You
can also rely on the VShield scanner to provide you with protection between
scheduled scan operations. Regular scan operations that examine all areas of
your computer, however, provide you with the best virus defense.
To prevent the application from scanning files that do not get infected, you can
identify which disks, folders, or individual files you want to exclude from scan
operations in an exclusion list. By default, the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
application does not scan the Recycle Bin because Windows will not run items
stored there. This item, therefore, will appear in the exclusion list when you
first open the window.
Each entry in the exclusion list displays the path to the item, notes whether the
application will also exclude any nested folders within the target, and explains
whether the application will exclude the item when it scans files, when it scans
your hard disk boot sector, or both.
By default, you can exclude up to 100 unique scan targets. To change this
number, open the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus control panel, click the
Components tab, then enter a new figure in the Maximum number of exclude
items text box. To learn more about how to use the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
control panel, see
on page
To exclude files or folders from scan operations, follow these steps:
1. To start from the Console window, select the task you created in the task
2. The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Properties dialog box appears (see
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list, then click in the Console toolbar.
6-8 on page 229). Click the Exclusion tab to display the correct property
page. (Figure 6-15).
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