McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual page 210

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
3. Choose a response from the When a virus is found list. The area
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Figure 6-12. VirusScan Properties dialog box - Action page
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.
You can choose from these options:
– Clean file. This option tells the application 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.
– Delete file. This option tells the application to delete the
infected file immediately.
– Exclude file. This option tells the application to skip the file
during later scan operations. This is the only option not
selected by default.