Scan Your Computer; View Scan Results - McAfee VIRUSSCAN PLUS 2008 User Manual

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Scan your computer

You can run a manual scan from either the Advanced or Basic
menu in SecurityCenter. If you run a scan from the Advanced
menu, you can confirm your manual scan options before
scanning. If you run a scan from the Basic menu, VirusScan starts
scanning immediately, using the existing scanning options. You
can also run a scan in Windows Explorer using the existing
scanning options.
Do one of the following:
Scan in SecurityCenter
To...
Scan using existing
settings
Scan using changed
settings
Scan in Windows Explorer
1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. Right-click a file, folder, or drive, and then click Scan.
Note: The scan results appear in the Scan completed alert.
Results include the number of items scanned, detected, repaired,
quarantined, and removed. Click
more about the scan results or work with infected items.

View scan results

When a manual scan finishes, you view the results to determine
what the scan found and to analyze the current protection status
of your computer. Scan results tell you whether VirusScan
detected, repaired, or quarantined viruses, trojans, spyware,
adware, cookies, and other potentially unwanted programs.
On the Basic or Advanced menu, click
of the following:
To...
View scan results in the
alert
View more information
about scan results
View a quick summary
of the scan results
Do this...
Scan
Click on the Basic menu.
Scan
Click on the Advanced menu, select
the locations to scan, select scan options,
Scan Now
and then cliick
View scan details
Scan
Do this...
View scan results in the Scan completed
alert.
View scan details
Click
completed alert.
Scan completed icon
Point to the
the notification area on your taskbar.
.
to learn
and then do one
in the Scan
in