McAfee VSF09EMB1RAA User Guide - Page 31

29 CHAPTER 7 McAfee VirusScan VirusScan's advanced detection and protection services defend you and your computer from the latest security threats, including viruses, Trojans, tracking cookies, spyware, adware, and other potentially unwanted programs. Protection extends beyond the files and folders on your desktop, targeting threats from different points of entry-including e-mail, instant messages, and the Web. With VirusScan, your computer's protection is immediate and constant (no tedious administration required). While you work, play, browse the Web, or check your e-mail, it runs in the background, monitoring, scanning, and detecting potential harm in real time. Comprehensive scans run on schedule, periodically checking your computer using a more sophisticated set of options. VirusScan offers you the flexibility to customize this behavior if you want to; but if you don't, your computer remains protected. With normal computer use, viruses, worms, and other potential threats may infiltrate your computer. If this occurs, VirusScan notifies you about the threat, but usually handles it for you, cleaning or quarantining infected items before any damage occurs. Although rare, further action may sometimes be required. In these cases, VirusScan lets you decide what to do (rescan the next time you start your computer, keep the detected item, or remove the detected item). Note: SecurityCenter reports critical and non-critical protection problems as soon as it detects them. If you need help diagnosing your protection problems, you can run McAfee Virtual Technician. In this chapter VirusScan features 30 Scanning your computer 31 Working with scan results 35 Scan types 38 Using additional protection 41 Setting up virus protection 45