McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual page 163

Method 2: Starting a scan task from the VirusScan Console
Follow these steps:
1. Double-click the VirusScan Console icon
to bring the Console window to the foreground.
If the icon does not appear in the system tray, click Start in the Windows
taskbar, point to Programs, then to McAfee VirusScan. Next, choose
VirusScan Console.
The Console comes with two preset tasks that use the VirusScan
application to run—Scan My Computer and Scan Drive 'C'.
You can:
• Start one of the preset tasks in its default configuration. Select a
task in the task list, then click
task is set to start automatically, the VirusScan application window
will open and the task will run immediately. If the task is not set to
start automatically, the window will open, but you must click Scan
Now to start the operation.
• Create and schedule a new task of your own. Click
Console toolbar to open the Task Properties dialog box. Name your
task, choose security options for it, specify how you want it to
appear when it runs and what you want it to do when it finishes. To
set configuration options for the task, click the Configure button at
the bottom of the property page.
2. Click the Schedule tab to specify when the task should run. Select the
Enable task checkbox to ready it to run at the scheduled time.
Using the VirusScan application
in the Windows system tray
in the Console toolbar. If the scan
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