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3. Click the Alert tab to choose additional VirusScan configuration 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 Alert options
Once you configure it with the response options you want, you can let the
VirusScan application look for and remove viruses from your system
automatically, as it finds them, with almost no further intervention. To have
the application tell you immediately when it finds a virus so that you can take
appropriate action, however, configure it to send an alert message to you.
Follow these steps:
1. Click the Alert tab in the VirusScan Advanced window to display the
correct property page (Figure 5-12).
Figure 5-14. VirusScan Advanced - Alert page
2. Select the Notify Alert Manager checkbox to have the VirusScan
application send alert messages to Alert Manager for distribution.
Alert Manager is a separate McAfee VirusScan software component that
collects alert messages and uses a variety of methods to send them to
recipients that you specify. To have the VirusScan application send these
alert messages successfully, you must also set up the Alert Manager
Client Configuration utility.
You can pass alert messages directly to an Alert Manager server, or you
can send alert messages as text (.ALR) files to a Centralized Alerting
directory that the Alert Manager server checks periodically.
Using the VirusScan application
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