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Installing Total Protection Service Completing the installation 4 Contact your reseller or McAfee product support to obtain a valid license key. 5 Enter the information requested in the form, then click Next. Once you activate your license key, your account becomes a licensed full subscription. Licensing information is also updated automatically for other computers installed under your account. Completing the installation After installing Total Protection Service, use these tasks on each client computer to ensure that the software is working correctly and the computer is protected. Tasks Testing virus protection Scanning the client computer Scanning the email Inbox Testing virus protection Use this task to test the virus-detection feature of virus and spyware protection by downloading the EICAR Standard AntiVirus Test File at the client computer. Although it is designed to be detected as a virus, the EICAR test file is not a virus. Task 1 Download the EICAR file from the following location: http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar.com If installed properly, virus and spyware protection interrupts the download and displays a threat detection dialog box. 2 Click OK, then select Cancel. NOTE: If installed incorrectly, virus and spyware protection does not detect the virus or interrupt the download process. In this case, use Windows Explorer to delete the EICAR test file from the client computer, then reinstall Total Protection Service and test the new installation. Scanning the client computer After installing virus and spyware protection for the first time, we recommend running an on-demand scan of all client computer drives before proceeding. This scan checks for and cleans or deletes existing threats in files. In the future, files are scanned when they are accessed, downloaded, or saved. Use this task to scan the drives on a client computer. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 On the client computer, click the Total Protection Service icon in the system tray, then select Console. McAfee Total Protection Service Installation Guide 29

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4
Contact your reseller or McAfee product support to obtain a valid license key.
5
Enter the information requested in the form, then click
Next
.
Once you activate your license key, your account becomes a licensed full subscription.
Licensing information is also updated automatically for other computers installed under
your account.
Completing the installation
After installing Total Protection Service, use these tasks on each client computer to ensure that
the software is working correctly and the computer is protected.
Tasks
Testing virus protection
Scanning the client computer
Scanning the email Inbox
Testing virus protection
Use this task to test the virus-detection feature of virus and spyware protection by downloading
the EICAR Standard AntiVirus Test File at the client computer. Although it is designed to be
detected as a virus, the EICAR test file is not a virus.
Task
1
Download the EICAR file from the following location:
If installed properly, virus and spyware protection interrupts the download and displays a
threat detection dialog box.
2
Click
OK
, then select
Cancel
.
NOTE:
If installed incorrectly, virus and spyware protection does not detect the virus or
interrupt the download process. In this case, use Windows Explorer to delete the EICAR
test file from the client computer, then reinstall Total Protection Service and test the new
installation.
Scanning the client computer
After installing virus and spyware protection for the first time, we recommend running an
on-demand scan of all client computer drives before proceeding. This scan checks for and cleans
or deletes existing threats in files. In the future, files are scanned when they are accessed,
downloaded, or saved.
Use this task to scan the drives on a client computer.
Task
For option definitions, click
?
in the interface.
1
On the client computer, click the Total Protection Service icon in the system tray, then
select
Console
.
Installing Total Protection Service
Completing the installation
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