Safe & Sound Configuration; Emergency Disk Creation - McAfee VIRUSSCAN PROFESSIONAL EDITION 7.0 Manual

Safe & Sound configuration

Emergency disk creation

Safe & Sound automatically selects files that are typically important to include
in a backup set. However, you can select other files or types of files to include
in your backup set.
How often should you or safe & sound make these backups?
The more recent your backup set, the happier you'll be if your PC does
encounter a problem that compromises the data on your primary drives.
However, you may want to keep the default Write-behind Delay of 20 minutes
to give you time to recover a previous version of a file if you ever need to
The Safe & Sound setup wizards guides you through your initial setup. Please
access online Help for information about Safe & Sound configuration.
As it installs itself, VirusScan software will examine your computer's memory
and your hard disk's boot sectors to verify that it can safely copy its files to
your hard disk without risking their infection. During that installation, Setup
offers to create an Emergency Disk you can use to start your system in a
virus-free environment. Should the VirusScan software itself become infected,
or if you want to be sure your computer is clean before you install any other
software, create and use an Emergency Disk to start your computer.
VirusScan software comes with an Emergency Disk wizard that makes disk
creation simple and fast.
The Emergency Disk you create includes BOOTSCAN.EXE, a specialized,
small-footprint command-line scanner that can scan your hard disk boot
sectors and Master Boot Record (MBR). BOOTSCAN.EXE works with
specialized set of virus definition (.DAT) files that focus on ferreting out
boot-sector viruses. If you have already installed VirusScan software with
default Setup options, you'll find these .DAT files in this location on your hard
disk:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx
The special .DAT files have these names:
M
EMCLEAN.DAT
M
EMNAMES.DAT
M
EMSCAN.DAT
McAfee periodically updates these .DAT files to detect new boot-sector
viruses. You can download updated Emergency .DAT files from this location:
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/naicommon/avert/avert-research-center/tools.asp
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