McAfee AVDCDE-BA-CA User Guide - Page 98

Using the VShield Scanner The VShield Properties dialog box consists of a series of property pages that control the settings for each program module. To choose your options, click the icon for the appropriate program module, then click each tab in the VShield Properties dialog box in turn. To open the VShield Properties dialog box, right-click the VShield icon in the Windows system tray to display the VShield shortcut menu, point to Properties, then choose System Scan. The dialog box appears with the System Scan icon selected (Figure 4-9). Figure 4-9. System Scan Properties dialog box - Detection page Configuring the System Scan module The VShield System Scan module is at the heart of the VShield scanner. It scans files that come from any source, including those that the other VShield modules direct to it from Internet downloads and e-mail messages. The module can check your system for viruses each time you open, run, copy, save, rename or otherwise modify files on your hard disk, on any removable media attached to your computer, or on network drives mapped to your system. It can also detect viruses each time you read from or write to a floppy disk. As an advanced option, you can activate heuristic scanning, which gives the scanner the capability to detect unidentified or unclassified viruses. 98 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software