McAfee VSF08EMB3RUA User Guide - Page 56

Scan your computer, View scan results

Get McAfee VSF08EMB3RUA - VirusScan Plus 2008 PDF manuals and user guides
UPC - 731944568331
View all McAfee VSF08EMB3RUA manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 56 highlights

54 McAfee VirusScan Plus Scan your computer You can run a manual scan from either the Advanced or Basic menu in SecurityCenter. If you run a scan from the Advanced menu, you can confirm your manual scan options before scanning. If you run a scan from the Basic menu, VirusScan starts scanning immediately, using the existing scanning options. You can also run a scan in Windows Explorer using the existing scanning options. ƒ Do one of the following: Scan in SecurityCenter To... Scan using existing settings Scan using changed settings Do this... Click Scan on the Basic menu. Click Scan on the Advanced menu, select the locations to scan, select scan options, and then cliick Scan Now. Scan in Windows Explorer 1. Open Windows Explorer. 2. Right-click a file, folder, or drive, and then click Scan. Note: The scan results appear in the Scan completed alert. Results include the number of items scanned, detected, repaired, quarantined, and removed. Click View scan details to learn more about the scan results or work with infected items. View scan results When a manual scan finishes, you view the results to determine what the scan found and to analyze the current protection status of your computer. Scan results tell you whether VirusScan detected, repaired, or quarantined viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, cookies, and other potentially unwanted programs. ƒ On the Basic or Advanced menu, click Scan and then do one of the following: To... Do this... View scan results in the View scan results in the Scan completed alert alert. View more information Click View scan details in the Scan about scan results completed alert. View a quick summary Point to the Scan completed icon in of the scan results the notification area on your taskbar.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
  • 149
  • 150
  • 151
  • 152
  • 153
  • 154
  • 155
  • 156
  • 157
  • 158
  • 159
  • 160
  • 161
  • 162
  • 163
  • 164
  • 165
  • 166
  • 167
  • 168
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • 172
  • 173
  • 174
  • 175
  • 176
  • 177
  • 178
  • 179
  • 180
  • 181
  • 182
  • 183
  • 184
  • 185
  • 186
  • 187
  • 188
  • 189
  • 190
  • 191
  • 192
  • 193
  • 194
  • 195
  • 196
  • 197
  • 198
  • 199
  • 200
  • 201
  • 202
54
McAfee VirusScan Plus
Scan your computer
You can run a manual scan from either the Advanced or Basic
menu in SecurityCenter. If you run a scan from the Advanced
menu, you can confirm your manual scan options before
scanning. If you run a scan from the Basic menu, VirusScan starts
scanning immediately, using the existing scanning options. You
can also run a scan in Windows Explorer using the existing
scanning options.
Do one of the following:
Scan in SecurityCenter
To...
Do this...
Scan using existing
settings
Click
Scan
on the Basic menu.
Scan using changed
settings
Click
Scan
on the Advanced menu, select
the locations to scan, select scan options,
and then cliick
Scan Now
.
Scan in Windows Explorer
1.
Open Windows Explorer.
2.
Right-click a file, folder, or drive, and then click
Scan
.
Note:
The scan results appear in the Scan completed alert.
Results include the number of items scanned, detected, repaired,
quarantined, and removed. Click
View scan details
to learn
more about the scan results or work with infected items.
View scan results
When a manual scan finishes, you view the results to determine
what the scan found and to analyze the current protection status
of your computer. Scan results tell you whether VirusScan
detected, repaired, or quarantined viruses, trojans, spyware,
adware, cookies, and other potentially unwanted programs.
On the Basic or Advanced menu, click
Scan
and then do one
of the following:
To...
Do this...
View scan results in the
alert
View scan results in the Scan completed
alert.
View more information
about scan results
Click
View scan details
in the Scan
completed alert.
View a quick summary
of the scan results
Point to the
Scan completed icon
in
the notification area on your taskbar.