McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 277

Using VirusScan Utilities 9 9 Understanding the VirusScan control panel The VirusScan control panel serves as the graphical front end for the VirusScan management service, which initiates and controls all top-level component processes, including the VirusScan application, the Console, and the VShield scanner. The VirusScan management service also provides a common memory structure for all VirusScan components, which allows the components to share data between themselves, and to act on that data. In practical terms, you can use the control panel to: • start and stop all VirusScan components with a single button • tell the VShield scanner and VirusScan Console to load as soon as your computer starts • set a ceiling for the number of scan targets the VirusScan application can examine or exclude during a scan session • limit the number of scan tasks that you can create, configure, and run from the VirusScan Console You can also choose whether you want to have the VirusScan management service load itself when your computer starts. Š NOTE: McAfee strongly recommends that you set the VirusScan management service to load at startup. If you do not, you might not be able to start some VirusScan components, and you will lose the benefit of data sharing between components. Opening the VirusScan control panel The VirusScan control panel operates much as a standard Windows control panel does. To open the control panel, follow these steps: 1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar, point to Settings, then choose Control Panel. 2. Locate and double-click the VirusScan control panel icon the control panel itself (see Figure 9-1 on page 278). to open User's Guide 277