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c. Click OK to save your settings and return to the VShield Properties
dialog box.
4. Click the Action tab to choose additional VirusScan application options.
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.
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 Advanced window to display the
correct property page (Figure 5-11).
Figure 5-13. VirusScan Advanced - Action page
2. Choose a response from the When a virus is found list. The area
immediately beneath the list will change to show you additional options
for each response. Your choices are:
• Prompt user for action. Choose this response if you expect to be at
your computer when the VirusScan application examines your
disk—the program will display an alert message when it finds a
virus and offer you a range of possible responses.
Each of the checkboxes you select in the Action page causes an
option button to appear in an alert message that the application
displays when it finds a virus. Selecting Delete file, here, for
example, causes a Delete button to appear in the alert message.
Using the VirusScan application
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