McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 182

Using the VirusScan application
3. Click the Alert tab to choose additional VirusScan configuration options.
Choosing Alert options
Once you configure it with the response options you want, you can let the
VirusScan application look for and remove viruses from your system
automatically, as it finds them, with almost no further intervention. To have
the application tell you immediately when it finds a virus so that you can take
appropriate action, however, configure it to send an alert message to you.
Follow these steps:
1. Click the Alert tab in the VirusScan Advanced window to display the
2. Select the Notify Alert Manager checkbox to have the VirusScan
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To start a scan operation immediately with just 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.
correct property page
Figure 5-15. VirusScan Advanced - Alert page
application send alert messages to Alert Manager for distribution.
Alert Manager is a separate McAfee software component that collects
alert messages and uses a variety of methods to send them to recipients
that you specify. To have the VirusScan application send these alert
messages successfully, you must also set up the Alert Manager Client
Configuration utility.
Configuration utility" on page 281
(Figure 5-15).
See "Using the Alert Manager Client
for details.