McAfee INTERNET GUARD DOG 3.0 User Manual page 62

McAfee VirusScan
• Choosing Action options
When VirusScan detects a virus, it can respond either by asking you what
it should do with the infected file, or by automatically taking an action that
you determine ahead of time. You can specify which response options you
want VirusScan to give you when it finds a virus, or which actions you
want it to take on its own. These response options include:
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• Choose a volume or folder on your system or on your network that
you want VirusScan to examine for viruses.
Click to expand the listing for an item shown in the dialog box.
Click to collapse an item. You can select hard disks, folders or
files as scan targets, whether they reside on your system or on other
computers on your network. You cannot select My Computer,
Network Neighborhood, or multiple volumes as scan targets from
VirusScan Classic—to choose these items as scan targets, you must
switch to VirusScan Advanced.
• Specify the types of files you want VirusScan to examine. By default,
VirusScan looks for viruses in files with the extensions .EXE, .COM,
.DO?, .XL?, .MD?, .VXD, .SYS, .BIN, .RTF, .OBD, and .DLL. Files
with .DO?, .XL?, .RTF, .MD?, and .OBD extensions are Microsoft
Office files, all of which can harbor macro virus infections. The ?
character is a wildcard that enables VirusScan to scan both
document and template files.
• Prompt User for Action. Choose this response if you expect to be at
your computer when VirusScan scans your disk—VirusScan will
display an alert message when it finds a virus and offer you the full
range of its available response options.
• Move infected files automatically. Choose this response to have
VirusScan move infected files to a quarantine directory as soon as it
finds them. By default, VirusScan moves these files to a folder
named INFECTED that it creates at the root level of the drive on
which it found the virus. For example, if VirusScan found an
infected file in T:\MY DOCUMENTS and you specified INFECTED
as the quarantine directory, VirusScan would copy the file to
T:\INFECTED.
You can enter a different name in the text box provided, or click
Browse to locate a suitable folder on your hard disk.
• Clean infected files automatically. Choose this response to tell
VirusScan to remove the virus code from the infected file as soon as
it finds it. If VirusScan cannot remove the virus, it will note the
incident in its log file.