McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 98

Using the VShield Scanner
The VShield Properties dialog box consists of a series of property pages that
control the settings for each program module. To choose your options, click
the icon for the appropriate program module, then click each tab in the
VShield Properties dialog box in turn.
To open the VShield Properties dialog box, right-click the VShield icon
the Windows system tray to display the VShield shortcut menu, point to
Properties, then choose System Scan.
The dialog box appears with the System Scan icon selected
Configuring the System Scan module
system for viruses each time you open, run, copy, save, rename or otherwise
modify files on your hard disk, on any removable media attached to your
computer, or on network drives mapped to your system. It can also detect
viruses each time you read from or write to a floppy disk. As an advanced
option, you can activate heuristic scanning, which gives the scanner the
capability to detect unidentified or unclassified viruses.
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Figure 4-9. System Scan Properties dialog box - Detection page
The VShield System Scan module is at the heart of the VShield
scanner. It scans files that come from any source, including those
that the other VShield modules direct to it from Internet
downloads and e-mail messages. The module can check your
in
(Figure 4-9).