Symantec 11281411 Administration Guide - Page 102
Floppies, Monitor, In the Auto-Protect Advanced Options dialog box, under Additional
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102 Scanning for viruses and other threats Configuring Auto-Protect scans 11 In the Heuristic Scanning dialog box, select the setting that you want, and then click OK. 12 In the Auto-Protect Advanced Options dialog box, under Additional advanced options, if you want to change the current settings for floppy disk scans, click Floppies. 13 In the Check Floppies dialog box, select one of the following: Check floppies for boot viruses upon access Symantec AntiVirus scans the floppy disk in the floppy drive for boot viruses when the drive is first accessed. When Symantec AntiVirus finds a boot virus, select whether to clean a virus from the boot record or leave it alone. If you click Leave alone (log only), an alert is sent when a virus is detected but no action is taken. Use this option if you want to take direct control over the virus cleaning and handling process. For example, after you receive the alert, you can decide what course of action to take. Do not check floppies Symantec AntiVirus skips the scan of any floppy disk in the upon system floppy drive when the computer is shut down normally. shutdown 14 Click OK. 15 In Windows 98 only, in the Auto-Protect Advanced Options dialog box, under Additional advanced options, if you want to disable protection monitors for virus-like activities, click Monitor. Virus-like activities are activities that viruses perform when they attempt to infect your files. Any of these activities might be legitimate depending on your work context. 16 In the Monitor dialog box, to exclude activities from monitoring, select one or more of the following: Low-Level Format Of All information on the drive is erased and cannot be Hard Disk recovered. This type of formatting is generally performed at the factory only. If this activity is detected, it usually indicates an unknown virus at work. This is not an option for NEC PC98xx computers. Write To Hard Disk Boot Records Very few programs write to hard disk boot records. If this activity is detected, it could indicate an unknown virus at work. Write To Floppy Disk Only a few programs (such as the operating system Format Boot Records command) write to floppy disk boot records. If this activity is detected, it could indicate an unknown virus at work.