McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 266
Choosing Report options, You can use the MAILSCAN.TXT file to track virus activity on your system
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Using Specialized Scanning Tools 7. Click the Report tab to choose additional E-Mail Scan extension options. To save your changes without closing the E-Mail Scan Properties dialog box, click Apply. To save your changes and close the dialog box, click OK. To close the dialog box without saving your changes, click Cancel. NOTE: Clicking Cancel will not undo any changes you already saved by clicking Apply. Choosing Report options E-Mail Scan lists its current settings and summarizes all of the actions it takes during its scanning operations in a log file called MAILSCAN.TXT. You can have E-Mail Scan write its log to this file, or you can use any text editor to create a text file for E-Mail Scan to use. You can then open and print the log file for later review from within E-Mail Scan or from a text editor. You can use the MAILSCAN.TXT file to track virus activity on your system and to note which settings the extension used to detect and respond to infections it found. You can also use the incident reports recorded in the file to determine which files you need to examine in quarantine, or delete from your computer. To set E-Mail Scan to record its actions in a log file, follow these steps: 1. Click the Report tab in the E-Mail Scan Properties dialog box to display the correct property page (Figure 8-6). Figure 8-6. E-Mail Scan Properties dialog box - Report page 266 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software