Scanning Email On Client Computers; Viewing The Progress Of Scheduled Scans; Enabling And Disabling On-Access Scanning - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Virus and Spyware Protection
Scanning on client computers
2 Close the Scan Completed panel or click View detailed report to display the Scan
Statistics report.

Scanning email on client computers

Use this task to scan an email message manually on a client computer.
Task
1 In the Microsoft Outlook Inbox, highlight one or more messages in the right pane.
2 Under Tools, select Scan for Threats. The On-Demand Email Scan window displays any
detections. If the window is empty, no threats were detected.

Viewing the progress of scheduled scans

Use this task to view a scheduled scan that is in progress on a client computer.
Before you begin
Enter your administrator credentials by using the Admin Login feature on the client computer.
Task
1 Click the Total Protection Service icon in the system tray, then select Open Console.
2 From the Action Menu, select Product Details.
3 In the Virus and Spyware Protection section, select View Scheduled Scan. Virus and
spyware protection displays the progress of the scan.
NOTE: This option is available only when a scheduled scan is in progress.
4 If needed, click Pause Scan to temporarily interrupt the scan or Cancel Scan to end the
scan. ( Optional )
5 Click View detailed report to open a browser window and display the results of the scan.

Enabling and disabling on-access scanning

Use this task at the client computer to disable the on-access scanner temporarily, which is
useful when working with product support to troubleshoot issues with scanning and cleaning
files. Use the same task to re-enable on-access scanning.
NOTE: This task disables only on-access scanning. Buffer overflow protection continues to
function. To disable buffer overflow protection, you must update the policy.
If you do not re-enable on-access scanning, it is enabled the next time the computer checks
for updates (unless you have disabled the policy option).
Before you begin
Enter your administrator credentials by using the Admin Login feature on the client computer.
Task
1 Click the Total Protection Service icon in the system tray, then select Open Console.
2 From the Action Menu, select Product Details.
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