Detections Report - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Virus and Spyware Protection
Reports for virus and spyware protection

Detections report

Use the Detections report to view and manage the types of potentially malicious code or
unwanted programs that have been found on the network.
Select the information that appears in this report How to use this report
Select this option...
Report period
Detection type
View
Groups
How to use this report
When you want to...
Display computers or detections
View details about detections
View details about a computer
where a detection occurred
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Select this option...
Report period
To do this...
Specify the period of time for which to display information. Select from the last week
or one of the last 12 months.
Show all threat detections or a particular type.
• Malware Infections — Known threats that would infect the computer if they
were not caught.
• Potentially Unwanted Programs — Programs that you have not approved
to run on client computers.
• Buffer Overflow Processes — Unwanted code that attempted to run in
reserved memory but was stopped.
• Cookies — Data files containing personal information that are created by a
web server and stored on your computer. Cookies allow web servers to
recognize you and track your preferences when you visit Internet sites.
List the computers where detections occurred, the names of detections, or the groups
containing computers where detections occurred.
Display all the computers on your account or only those in a single group.
Do this...
Click the triangle icon next to a name.
• Under a computer name, show which detections were found.
• Under a detection name, show the computers where it was found.
Click a group name to display computers in that group.
If detections are listed for a computer, click a quantity to display details.
• Click a quantity for Detected Objects to display a list of detected threats and
their status.
• From the Detections List, click the name of a detection to display detailed
information from the McAfee Avert Labs Threat Library.
Click a computer name to display the Computer Details page, which displays
information about the computer, its service components, and its detections.
To do this...
Specify the period of time for which to display information. Select from the last week