Reporting New Viruses Or Objects; Submitting Virus Information To Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team - McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual

About Quarantine

Reporting New Viruses or Objects

McAfee is committed to providing you with effective and up-to-date tools you
can use to protect your system. To that end, we invite you to report any new
viruses, Java classes, ActiveX controls, or dangerous websites that VirusScan
does not now detect. Please note that McAfee reserves the right to use any
information you supply as it deems appropriate without incurring any
obligations whatsoever.
If you have found what you suspect to be a new or unidentified virus, send the
infected file to McAfee Labs Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team for
analysis, using the Submit to McAfee Wizard. You are given the option of
removing your personal data from the file before submitting it.
Submitting Virus Information to Anti-Virus
Emergency Response Team
If you have found what you suspect to be a new or unidentified virus, send the
infected file to McAfee Labs Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team for
analysis using the Submit to McAfee Wizard. Please note that Network
Associates reserves the right to use any information you supply as it deems
appropriate without incurring any obligations whatsoever.
1. Click Start on the bottom-left of your screen.
2. Select Programs ® McAfee VirusScan ® McAfee VirusScan Central.
VirusScan Central opens.
3. Click Quarantine. Quarantine Explorer appears.
4. Select a file in the list or click Add to add an infected file to the list.
5. Click to Submit to McAfee. The McAfee Labs A.V.E.R.T Wizard appears.
264 McAfee VirusScan
• Restore. Select this option to restore a file to its original folder. This
option does not clean the file. Make sure the file is not infected
before using this option
• Delete. Select this option to delete the infected file. Make sure to
note the file location so you have a record of the deleted files. You
will need to restore deleted files from backup copies.
• Submit to McAfee. Select this option to submit new viruses to
McAfee.