McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 274

Using Specialized Scanning Tools
7. Set the ScreenScan utility to resume any scan operations that got
8. Set Advanced ScreenScan options. Click Configure to open the
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– Enable macro and program file heuristics scanning.
Choose this option to have the utility use both types of
heuristics scanning. McAfee recommends that you use this
option for complete anti-virus protection.
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NOTE: The utility will use heuristic scanning techniques
only on the file types you designate in the Program File
Extensions dialog box. If you choose to scan All files, it
will use heuristic scanning for all file types.
interrupted from the point at which it left off. Select Resume scanning
from where ScreenScan left off.
If you do not select this checkbox, the utility will begin its scan operation
again from the root level of the first drive you specified as a scan target
each time your screen saver starts to run. This could mean that the utility
will scan some parts of your system repeatedly but will miss other parts
completely.
Advanced Scanner Settings dialog box
Figure 8-11. Advanced Scanner Settings dialog box
Your choices are:
• Set an execution priority for ScreenScan tasks. Slide the scan
priority control toward High to give a higher priority for system
resources and time to the ScreenScan utility than to other
background activities, such as disk defragmentation operations,
that operate during otherwise idle periods on your computer. This
causes the other activities to run more slowly.
(Figure 8-11).