User manual MCAFEE VIRUSSCAN 5.1

[. . . ] McAfee VirusScan User's Guide Version 5. 1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000 Network Associates, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of Network Associates, Inc. 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All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Double-click the VirusScan Console icon in the Windows system tray to bring the Console window to the foreground (Figure 4-42). Figure 4-42. Select VShield in the task list, then choose Disable from the Task menu. the Console will stop the VShield scanner and all of its modules, and unload them from memory. Click the minimize or the close button in the upper-right corner of the Console window to shrink it back to a system tray icon. To run any tasks you have scheduled, the Console must be active. User's Guide 151 Using the VShield Scanner Method 3: Use the VirusScan control panel Follow these steps: 1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar, point to Settings, then choose Control Panel. All active VirusScan components will stop, close all open windows or dialog boxes, remove their icons from the Windows system tray, and unload from memory. Click OK to close the control panel. Disabling the VShield scanner and its modules You can use any of three methods to disable any of the VShield modules--that is, deactivate the module, but do not remove the scanner from memory--in any of three ways. Once you disable a module, you can reactivate it in much the same way you disabled it. 152 McAfee VirusScan Using the VShield Scanner Method 1: Use the VShield shortcut menu Follow these steps: 1. Choose one of the module names shown with a check mark beside it to deactivate it. This method disables a module only for the length of a scan session, or until you enable it again. Depending on which combination of modules you enable, the VShield icon will display a different state. Method 2: Use the System Scan Status dialog box Follow these steps: 1. Double-click the VShield icon in the Windows system tray to open the System Scan Status dialog box (Figure 4-44). For each module that you want to disable, click the corresponding tab, then click Disable. The same button in the property page for inactive modules will read Enable. Depending on which combination of modules you enable, the VShield icon will display a different state. User's Guide 153 Using the VShield Scanner Method 3: Use the VShield Properties dialog box Follow these steps: 1. Point to Properties, then choose a module name to open the VShield Properties dialog box (Figure 4-45). Figure 4-45. For each module that you want to disable, click the corresponding icon along the left side of the dialog box, then click the Detection tab. As you do so, the scanner will disable that module and make all of the configuration options in that page unavailable. Depending on which modules you disable, the VShield icon will display a different state. If you disable all of its modules, the scanner will display in the Windows system tray, unless you clear the Show icon in the taskbar checkbox in the System Scan Detection property page. [. . . ] If you configure your computers to download iDAT files directly from the McAfee Web site, be sure to schedule your updates for a time after the regular weekly . DAT file postings. Frequently asked questions Connectivity issues Q: What happens if my machine is off when a scheduled update is due?A: If the AutoUpdate utility misses a scheduled task because your computer or the VirusScan Console were not running at the task's scheduled time, the utility will run the task the next time your computer or the Console starts. Q: What happens if my Internet or network connection goes down during an update?A: If the AutoUpdate utility downloaded one or more iDAT files before the connection loss, it will install them into your existing . DAT files and record its failure to download the remaining iDAT files in its activity log. User's Guide 299 Understanding iDAT Technology Corrupted data Q: What happens if one of the iDAT files is corrupted during download? [. . . ]