Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Client Manual page 6

6 Contents
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Protecting your computer from viruses and security risks
About the antivirus and security risk policy ................................................... 39
What to scan ................................................................................................. 40
What to do if a virus or security risk is detected .................................... 42
Using Auto-Protect .............................................................................................. 43
About Auto-Protect and security risks ..................................................... 43
About Auto-Protect and email scanning .................................................. 44
Disabling email scanning if you use SSL connections ........................... 45
Viewing Auto-Protect Scan Statistics ....................................................... 45
Modifying Auto-Protect and using SmartScan ....................................... 46
Disabling and enabling security risk scanning in Auto-Protect .......... 46
Using Tamper Protection ................................................................................... 47
Enabling, disabling, and configuring Tamper Protection ..................... 47
Creating Tamper Protection messages .................................................... 48
Scanning for viruses and security risks ........................................................... 50
How Symantec AntiVirus detects viruses and security risks ............... 50
What happens during a scan ...................................................................... 51
About definitions files ................................................................................ 52
About scanning compressed and encoded files ..................................... 52
Initiating manual scans .............................................................................. 52
Configuring scanning .......................................................................................... 55
Creating scheduled scans ........................................................................... 55
Creating startup scans ................................................................................ 57
Creating user-defined scans ....................................................................... 59
Editing and deleting startup, user-defined, and scheduled scans ....... 60
Configuring actions for viruses and security risks ................................ 61
Configuring notifications for viruses and security risks ....................... 67
Interpreting scan results .................................................................................... 71
Excluding files from scans ................................................................................. 73
What to do if a virus or security risk is found
Acting on infected files ....................................................................................... 75
About damage that viruses cause .............................................................. 77
About the Quarantine ......................................................................................... 77
Move files that are infected by viruses to the Quarantine .................... 77
Leave files that are infected by security risks in the Quarantine ........ 78
Delete files that are infected by viruses in the Quarantine .................. 78
Delete files that are infected by security risks in the Quarantine ....... 78