McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual page 118

Using the VShield Scanner
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Š NOTE: If you choose Prompt for user action from the list,
click the Alert tab to specify whether you want the E-Mail Scan
module to prompt you with a message, a beep, or both.
Select the options you want to see in the alert message. Each of the
checkboxes you select here causes an option button to appear in an
alert message that the module displays when it finds a virus.
Selecting Delete file here, for example, causes a Delete button to
appear in the alert message.
You can choose from these options:
– Clean file. This option tells the module to try to remove the
virus code from the infected file. If you have its reporting
function enabled, it will record a log event each time it
successfully cleans, or fails to clean, an infected file.
Š NOTE: The E-Mail Scan module does not support this
option for Lotus cc:Mail v7.x and earlier e-mail systems.
The option will not appear here if you selected Lotus
cc:Mail in the E-Mail Scan Detection page.
– Delete file. This option tells the module to delete the infected
attachment immediately. The module will, however, preserve
the e-mail message it came in.
– Move file. This option tells the module to move the infected file
to a quarantine folder. The alert message will display a Move
file to button that allows you to locate a quarantine folder.
– Continue scan. This option tells the module to continue
scanning, but to take no other actions. If you have its reporting
options enabled, the module records the incident in its log file.
• Move infected files to a folder. Choose this response to have the
module move infected files to a quarantine folder as soon as it finds
them. The module moves these files to a folder named Infected
located in the VirusScan program directory.
You can change the name and location of the folder into which the
module deposits infected Internet mail, but to do so, you must
switch to the Download Scan module and click the Action tab there.
• Clean infected files. Choose this response to tell the module to
remove the virus code from the infected file as soon as it finds it. If
the module cannot remove the virus, it will note the incident in its
log file.