McAfee VSF08EMB3RUA User Guide - Page 55

53 CHAPTER 11 Scanning your computer When you start SecurityCenter for the first time, VirusScan's real-time virus protection starts protecting your computer from potentially harmful viruses, Trojans, and other security threats. Unless you disable real-time virus protection, VirusScan constantly monitors your computer for virus activity, scanning files each time you or your computer access them, using the real-time scanning options that you set. To make sure that your computer stays protected against the latest security threats, leave real-time virus protection on and set up a schedule for regular, more comprehensive manual scans. For more information about setting real-time and manual scan options, see Setting up virus protection (page 37). VirusScan provides a more detailed set of scanning options for manual virus protection, allowing you to periodically run more extensive scans. You can run manual scans from SecurityCenter, targeting specific locations according to a set schedule. However, you can also run manual scans directly in Windows Explorer while you work. Scanning in SecurityCenter offers the advantage of changing scanning options on-the-fly. However, scanning from Windows Explorer offers a convenient approach to computer security. Whether you run a manual scan from SecurityCenter or Windows Explorer, you can view the scan results when it finishes. You view the results of a scan to determine whether VirusScan has detected, repaired, or quarantined viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, cookies, and other potentially unwanted programs. The results of a scan can be displayed in different ways. For example, you can view a basic summary of scan results or detailed information, such as the infection status and type. You can also view general scan and detection statistics. In this chapter Scan your computer 54 View scan results 54