Clean Malware Automatically; View The Results Of Manual Scan - F-SECURE CLIENT SECURITY 9.00 Administrator's Manual

Scan type What is scanned
Rootkit scan Important system locations
where a suspicious item may
mean a security problem.
Scans for hidden files, folders,
drives or processes

Clean malware automatically

If malware is found during the scan, you can either let the program automatically decide how to clean your
computer or you can decide yourself for each item.
1. Select either of:
Option
Handle automatically (recommended)
I want to decide item by item
2. Click Next.

View the results of manual scan

You can view a report of the scanning results after the scan is complete.
Note: You might want to view this report because the action you selected may not always be the action
that was performed. For example, if you chose to clean an infected file, but the virus could not be
removed from the file, the product may have performed some other action to the file.
To view the report:
1. Click Show Report.
The report includes:
• The number of malware found.
• The type of malware found and links to descriptions of the malware on the Internet.
• The actions applied to each malware item.
• Any items that were excluded from the scan.
• The scanning engines that were used to scan for malware .
Note: The number of scanned files can differ depending on whether files are scanned inside archives
during the scan. If archived files have been scanned earlier, the scan results may be saved in the
cache memory.
2. Click Finish to close the
Tip: You can view the results of the last scan also by clicking
scanning. Click
Scan Wizard.
View last scanning report.
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When to use this type
check whether your computer is clean, because it is able to
efficiently find and remove any active malware on your
computer.
When you suspect that a rootkit may be installed on your
computer. For example, if malware was recently detected in
your computer and you want to make sure that it did not
install a rootkit.
What will happen
The program decides what to do to each malware item to
automatically clean your computer.
The program asks what you want to do to each malware
item.
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