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Using the VirusScan application
2. Choose the types of alert methods you want the VirusScan application to
3. Select the Log to file checkbox.
4. To minimize the log file size, select the Limit size of log file to checkbox,
5. Click a different tab to change any of your VirusScan settings.
Configuring the VirusScan Advanced interface
The VirusScan Advanced interface offers you more flexibility in your
configuration options than does the VirusScan Classic interface, including the
ability to run more than one scan operation concurrently, the ability to exclude
items from scan operations, and the ability to activate the application's
heuristic detection capability.
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use when it finds a virus. You can have it:
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Display a custom message. Select the Display message checkbox,
then enter the message you want to appear in the text box provided.
You can enter a message up to 225 characters in length.
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NOTE: To have the VirusScan application display your
message, you must have selected Prompt user for action as
your response in the Action page (see
options" on page 180
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Beep. Select the Sound alert checkbox.
By default, VirusScan software writes log information to the file
VSCLOG.TXT in the VirusScan program directory. To specify a log file
other than VSCLOG.TXT, enter a file name and path in the text box
provided, or click Browse to locate a suitable file elsewhere on your hard
disk or on your network.
then enter a value for the file size, in kilobytes, in the text box provided.
Enter a value between 10
limits the file size to 100
set, VirusScan software erases the existing log and begins again from the
point at which it left off.
To start a scan operation immediately with 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.
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