McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 100

Using the VShield Scanner "Inbound" files are files that your computer or another system on the network saves or writes to local hard disks attached to your computer or to any network hard disks you have mapped to your system. To include network drives mapped to your system for a scan session, you must also select the Network drives checkbox. Your system can receive data from your computer's memory, from a floppy disk in your computer's floppy drive, from other systems, from e-mail, or from other sources, then write that data to a file on your hard disk. The VShield scanner treats all such data as "inbound." "Outbound" files, meanwhile, are files that your computer or other systems on the network read from local hard disks attached to your system or from network disks mapped to your system. To include network drives mapped to your system for a scan session, here too you must select the Network drives checkbox. Whenever your computer or another system reads data from a file stored on a local hard disk attached to your system or a network disk mapped to your system, the System Scan module treats that data as "outbound." Š NOTE: If you have network drives mapped to your computer from which you copy files, or if other network users copy files from your computer, McAfee strongly recommends that you have the VShield scanner installed both on your computer and on the computer that "owns" the network drive. You should also select all checkboxes in the Scan area in the Detection page, plus the Network drives checkbox in the What to Scan area. Your copy of the System Scan module will then examine files as your computer reads them from your hard disk, then again as it writes them to the destination computer's hard disk. If the destination computer has its own copy of the System Scan module active, it too will scan the file as you write it to the network drive if that System Scan module has the Inbound files checkbox selected. If you tend to copy files from one server that does not copy files from your computer, and if other network users do the same, you might want to configure your computers to scan only files that they write to their hard disks-or only files that they read from their hard disks-in order to prevent two computers from scanning the same file. If you do so, however, you should configure each computer identically. Otherwise, one computer that scans only outbound files could copy an infected file from a server that scans only inbound files. 100 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software