Understanding Threat Detections - McAfee VLF09E002RAA - VirusScan Professional 2005 User Manual

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Understanding threat detections

For most viruses, Trojans, and worms, Scan automatically tries to clean the file.
You can then choose how to manage detected files, including whether to submit
them to the McAfee AVERT labs for research. If Scan detects a potentially
unwanted program, you can manually try to clean, quarantine, or delete it
(AVERT submission is unavailable).
To manage a virus or Potentially Unwanted Program:
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NOTE
These options in Windows Scheduler are not supported:
At system startup
last supported schedule remains enabled until you select from
among the valid options.
c. Select the time of day to scan your computer in the
d. To select advanced options, click
The
Advanced Schedule Options
i. Specify a start date, end date, duration, end time, and whether to stop
the task at the specified time if the scan is still running.
ii. Click to save your changes and close the dialog box. Otherwise,
OK
click .
Cancel
Click to save your changes and close the dialog box. Otherwise, click
OK
.
Cancel
To revert to the default schedule, click
If a file appears in the
file to select it.
NOTE
If more than one file appears in the list, you can select the
checkbox in front of the
action on all of the files. You can also click the file name in the
Scan Information
Information Library.
If the file is a Potentially Unwanted Program, you can click
it.
If Scan cannot clean the file, you can click
temporarily isolate suspect files in the quarantine directory until an
appropriate action can be taken. (See
details.)
, , and
When idle Show multiple schedules
Advanced
dialog box opens.
Set to Default
, click the checkbox in front of the
List of Detected Files
list to perform the same
File Name
list to view details from the Virus
Quarantine
Managing quarantined files on page 32
Manually scanning your computer
. The
Start time
.
. Otherwise, click
to try to clean
Clean
to encrypt and
User Guide
box.
.
OK
for
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