McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 214

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks Figure 6-12. VirusScan Properties dialog box - Action page 3. Choose a response from the When a virus is found list. The area immediately beneath the list will change to show you additional options for each response. Your choices are: • Prompt user for action. Choose this response if you expect to be at your computer when the VirusScan application examines your disk-the program will display an alert message when it finds a virus and offer you a range of possible responses. Each of the checkboxes you select in the Action page causes an option button to appear in an alert message that the application displays when it finds a virus. Selecting Delete file, here, for example, causes a Delete button to appear in the alert message. To learn how to respond to these messages, see "Responding when the VirusScan application detects a virus" on page 70. You can choose from these options: - Clean file. This option tells the application to try to remove the virus code from the infected file. If you have its reporting function enabled, it will record a log event each time it successfully cleans, or fails to clean, an infected file. - Delete file. This option tells the application to delete the infected file immediately. - Exclude file. This option tells the application to skip the file during later scan operations. This is the only option not selected by default. 214 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software