Email Scans; Spyware Scans - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Virus and Spyware Protection
Types of scans
Scheduled scans
Schedule an on-demand scan to occur at a specific date and time, either once or on a
recurring basis. For example, you might want to scan client computers at 11:00 P.M. each
Saturday, when it is unlikely to interfere with other processes running on client computers.
Configure scheduled scans by selecting policy options for virus and spyware protection.
Scheduled scans run on all computers using the policy.

Email scans

Email scans occur during on-access and on-demand scans.
A virus and spyware protection policy option lets you configure whether email is scanned
before it reaches a users' Inbox.
The default settings for email scanning are:
• Scan all email attachments when accessed and when saved to the hard drive, protecting
the computer from email infections.
• Scan email before placing it in a user's Inbox.

Spyware scans

Spyware scanning is a feature within virus and spyware protection that looks for and identifies
spyware indicators. Spyware scanning occurs:
• Whenever programs are installed or run, as part of on-access scans.
• During on-demand scans.
Virus and spyware protection policy options let you configure these spyware scanning features:
• Whether files are scanned for spyware.
• The types of spyware threats to detect.
• Approved programs that should not be detected as threats.
The default spyware-related settings are:
• Look for spyware identifiers during on-access and on-demand scans, to detect if a spyware
program attempts to run or a program attempts to install spyware.
• Scan for all types of spyware threats.
The response to detections depends on the spyware protection mode configured in the client
computer's policy. Three responses are possible:
• Attempt to clean the program (Protect mode).
• Prompt the user for a response (Prompt mode).
This is the default setting.
• Report the detection and take no further action (Report mode).
Cookies and registry keys that indicate spyware are also detected. Deleting a potentially
unwanted program deletes any associated cookies and registry keys.
All detections are listed in administrative reports available from the SecurityCenter. On
client computers, users can view and manage detections by using the Potentially Unwanted
Program Viewer.
NOTE: At the start of an on-demand scan, all previous detections of potentially unwanted
programs are cleared from the Potentially Unwanted Program Viewer. For on-access scans,
previous detections remain in the Potentially Unwanted Program Viewer.
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