McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 209

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks Choosing Detection options If you chose to configure a task you just created, the VirusScan application initially assumes that you want to scan your C: drive and your computer's memory, to look for boot sector viruses, and to restrict the files it scans only to those susceptible to virus infection. If you chose to configure one of the default tasks, your initial options will vary. To modify the initial task options, follow these steps: 1. Choose which parts of your system or your network you want the VirusScan application to examine for viruses. You can: • Add scan targets. Click Add to open the Add Scan Item dialog box (Figure 6-9). Figure 6-9. Add Scan Item dialog box To scan your entire computer or a subset of the drives on your system or your network, click the Select item to scan button, then: a. Choose a scan target from the list provided. Your choices are: - My Computer. This tells the application to scan all drives physically attached to your computer or logically mapped via Windows Explorer to a drive letter on your computer. - All removable media. This tells the application to scan only floppy disks, CD-ROM discs, Iomega ZIP disks, or similar storage devices physically attached to your computer. - All fixed disks. This tells the application to scan hard disks physically connected to your computer. - All network drives. This tells the application to scan all drives logically mapped via Windows Explorer to a drive letter on your computer. b. Click OK to close the dialog box. User's Guide 209