McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual page 166

Using the VirusScan application
3. Specify the types of files you want VirusScan software to examine. You
4. Click the Action tab to choose additional VirusScan options.
Choosing Action options
When VirusScan software detects a virus, it can respond either by asking you
what it should do with the infected file, or by automatically taking an action
that you determine ahead of time. Use the Action property page to specify
which response options you want VirusScan software to give you when it
finds a virus, or which actions you want it to take on its own.
Follow these steps:
1. Click the Action tab in the VirusScan Classic window to display the
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can:
• Scan compressed files. Select the Compressed files checkbox to
have VirusScan software look for viruses in compressed files and
file archives. Although it does give you better protection, scanning
compressed files can lengthen a scan operation.
• Scan all files. Select the All Files checkbox to have the application
scan all of the files on the target you specified, whatever their
extensions.
Š NOTE: McAfee VirusScan Software recommends that you
choose this option for your first scan operation, or periodically
thereafter, to ensure that your system is virus-free. You can
then limit the scope of later scan operations.
• Choose file types. Viruses cannot infect files that contain no
executable code, whether script, macro, or binary code. You can,
therefore, safely narrow the scope of your scan operations to those
files most susceptible to virus infection. To do so, click the Program
files only button.
To see or designate the file name extensions the application will
examine, click Extensions. This opens the Program File Extensions
dialog box.
To start a scan operation immediately with just the options you've
chosen, click Scan Now. To save your changes as default scan options,
choose Save As Default from the File menu or click New Scan. To save
your settings in a new file, choose Save Settings from the File menu,
name your file in the dialog box that appears, then click Save.
correct property page (Figure 5-5).