McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 216

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
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. To start from the Console window, select the task you created in the task
2. The VirusScan Properties dialog box appears (see
3. Select the Notify Alert Manager checkbox to have the VirusScan
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list, then click in the Console toolbar.
208). Click the Alert tab to display the correct property page
6-13).
Figure 6-13. VirusScan Properties dialog box - 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
See "Using the Alert Manager Client
for details.
Figure 6-8 on page
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