McAfee AVDCDE-BA-CA User Guide - Page 106

Using the VShield Scanner 3. The items you can choose from the list are: • Prompt for user action. Choose this response to have the System Scan module ask you what to do when it finds a virus-the module will display an alert message and offer you a set of possible responses. If your computer runs Windows 95 or Windows 98, choosing this response displays the Prompt Type option (Figure 4-13). Here you can choose the method you want the System Scan module to use to alert you when it finds a virus. Figure 4-13. Prompt Type area Your choices are: - BIOS. Click this button to see a full-screen text-mode alert message that offers you a range of response options, including the option to continue without any action against the virus. This mode also brings your system to a complete halt until you choose a response option. - GUI. Click this button to see a standard graphical alert message that also offers a range of response options. This range will not include Continue access. As the prompt awaits your choice, your system will continue with normal operations in the background. Next, choose which response options you want to see in that alert message from the Possible Actions area at the bottom of the property page. Each of the checkboxes you choose here causes an option button to appear in an alert message that the module displays when it finds a virus. Selecting Delete file, here, for example, causes a Delete button or option to appear in the alert message.Your choices are: - Clean file. This option tells the module 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 module to delete the infected file immediately. 106 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software