McAfee VLF09E002RAA - VirusScan Professional 2005 User Manual page 19

Scanning inbound instant message attachments
By default, scanning of instant message attachments is enabled via the
inbound instant message attachments
When this option is enabled, VirusScan automatically scans and attempts to clean
inbound infected instant message attachments for most popular instant messaging
programs, including the following:
MSN Messenger 6.0 or later
Yahoo Messenger 4.1 or later
AOL Instant Messenger 2.1 or later
NOTE
For your protection, you cannot disable auto-cleaning of
instant message attachments.
If an inbound instant message attachment is infected, VirusScan performs the
following steps:
Tries to clean the infected message
Prompts you to quarantine or delete an uncleanable message
Scanning all files
If you set ActiveShield to use the default
every file type that your computer uses, as your computer attempts to use it. Use
this option to get the most thorough scan possible.
To set ActiveShield to scan all file types:
Right-click the McAfee icon, point to
1
Click , then click the
Advanced
2
Click
All files (recommended)
3
option (Figure 2-1 on page
All files (recommended)
, and then click
VirusScan
tab (Figure 2-4 on page
Scanning
, then click .
OK
Using ActiveShield
Scan
14).
option, it scans
.
Options
20).
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