McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 166

Using the VirusScan application
2. Click the Schedule tab to specify when the task should run. Select the
Method 3: Starting a scan task from a settings file
You can use any settings file you've saved with your own configuration
options to start the VirusScan application.
Follow these steps:
1. Locate and double-click a settings file that you saved from the VirusScan
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You can:
• Start one of the preset tasks in its default configuration. Select a
task in the task list, then click
task is set to start automatically, the VirusScan application window
will open and the task will run immediately. If the task is not set to
start automatically, the window will open, but you must click Scan
Now to start the operation.
• Create and schedule a new task of your own. Click
Console toolbar to open the Task Properties dialog box. Name your
task, choose security options for it, specify how you want it to
appear when it runs and what you want it to do when it finishes. To
set configuration options for the task, click the Configure button at
the bottom of the property page. To learn about how to configure
your scan task, see
page 208.
Enable task checkbox to ready it to run at the scheduled time. To learn
how to set a schedule for the task, see
application window.
This reopens the VirusScan application window and loads the
configuration options you saved
Figure 5-4. VirusScan Advanced window
in the Console toolbar. If the scan
"Configuring VirusScan application options" on
"Enabling tasks" on page
(Figure 5-4).
in the
204.