Virus Scan

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Norton VirusScan offers comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date virus and spyware protection. Powered by award-winning Norton scanning technology, VirusScan protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses, suspect scripts, rootkits, buffer overflows, hybrid attacks, spyware, potentially unwanted programs, and other threats.

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Virus Protection:

When virus protection (real-time scanning) is started, it constantly monitors your computer for virus activity. Real-time scanning scans files each time you or your computer access them. When virus protection detects an infected file, it tries to clean or remove the infection. If a file cannot be cleaned or removed, an alert prompts you to take further action.

To enable virus protection:

1. On the Advanced Menu, click Configure
2. On the Configure pane, click Computer & Files
3. Under Virus Protection, click On

Manual Scan:

You can manually scan at any time. For example, if you just installed VirusScan, you can perform a scan to ensure that your computer does not have any viruses or other threats. Or, if you disabled real-time scanning, you can perform a scan to ensure that your computer is still secure.

To scan using manual scan settings:

1. On the Basic Menu, click Scan. When the scan is completed, a summary shows the number of items scanned and detected, the number of items cleaned, and when your last scan occurred.
2. Click Finish.

To configure the type of files to scan:

1. On the Advanced Menu, click Configure.
2. On the Configure pane, click Computer & Files.
3. Under Virus protection , click Advanced.
4. On the Virus Protection pane, click Manual Scan.
5. Select or clear the following check boxes:
   • Scan for unknown viruses using heuristics : Files are matched to signatures of known viruses in order to detect signs of unidentified viruses. This option provides the most thorough scan, but is generally slower than a normal scan.
   • Scan .zip and other archive files : Detects and removes viruses in .zip and other archive files. Sometimes virus authors plant viruses in a .zip file, and then insert that .zip file it into another .zip file in an effort to bypass anti-virus scanners.
   • Scan and remove tracking cookies : Cookies that potentially gather and transmit data without your permission are detected and removed. A cookie identifies users when they visit a Web page.
   • Scan for rootkits and other stealth programs : Detect and remove any rootkit or other program that hides from Windows.
6. Click one of the following buttons:
   • All files (recommended) : Every file type that your computer uses is scanned. Use this option to get the most thorough scan.
   • Program files and documents only : Only program files and documents are scanned.
7. Click OK.

To configure where to scan:

1. On the Advanced Menu, click Configure.
2. On the Configure pane, click Computer & Files.
3. Under Virus protection , click Advanced.
4. On the Virus Protection pane, click Manual Scan.
5. Under Default Location to Scan , select the files, folders, and drives that you want to scan. To get the most thorough scan possible, ensure that Critical files is selected.
6. Click OK.

To schedule a scan:

1. On the Advanced Menu, click Configure.
2. On the Configure pane, click Computer & Files.
3. Under Virus protection , click Advanced.
4. On the Virus Protection pane, click Scheduled Scan.
5. Ensure that Enable scheduled scanning is selected.
6. Select the check box beside the day of the week on which to perform the scan.
7. Click values in the start time lists to specify a start time.
8. Click OK.