User manual MCAFEE DR SOLOMON S ANTI-VIRUS 8.5

[. . . ] Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus User's Guide Version 8. 5 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. [. . . ] The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application, however, can detect a virus as it lies in wait for an opportunity to run. Accidentally leaving a floppy disk in your drive as you start your computer could load a virus into memory before the VShield scanner, particularly if you do not have the scanner configured to scan floppy disks. Once in memory, a virus can infect nearly any program, including the VShield scanner. · The VShield scanner requires time and resources. Scanning for viruses as you run, copy or save files can delay, though very slightly, software launch times and other tasks. Depending on your situation, this could be time you might rather devote to important system operations. Although the impact is very slight, you might be tempted to disable the VShield scanner if you need every bit of available power for demanding tasks. In that case, performing regular scan operations during idle periods can guard your system against infection without compromising performance. · Good security is redundant security. In the networked, web-centric world in which most computer users operate today, it takes only a moment to download a virus from a source you might not even realize you visited. If a software conflict has disabled background scanning for that moment, or if you have not configured background scanning to watch a vulnerable entry point, you could end up with a virus. Regular scan operations can often catch infections before they spread or do any harm. 176 Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Using the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application If you connect to the Internet frequently or download files often, you might want to schedule regular scan operations that sweep your system at set intervals, so that you don't have to remember to start the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application. The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Console provides a very flexible set of options for this purpose. To learn more about scheduling Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application tasks, see "Creating new tasks" on page 219. Starting the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application You can start the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application in its own window, or as part of a scheduled scan task. The method you choose depends on what sort of scan operation you want to run. When you first start it, the application window opens so that you can make changes to its configuration. You must click Scan Now or Run Now in a separate step to start an actual scan operation. Four separate methods exist to start the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application--the fourth method involves running the application from the command line. The Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Administrator's Guide lists the command-line options for this method. The next sections describe each method. Method 1: Displaying the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus application main window Follow these steps: 1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, then to Network Associates. Next, choose Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus. [. . . ] The scheduling feature also allows you to set a "randomization window" centered on the time you schedule for your update. You can use this feature to send out a standard AutoUpdate configuration, with a standard update schedule, but still prevent network traffic bottlenecks that might otherwise result when all of the computers on your network simultaneously try to update their . DAT files. If some of your client computers are off, or if they do not have the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Console running, the AutoUpdate utility will resume its scheduled task when you next start the computer or the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Console. To learn how to use this feature, see "Enabling tasks" on page 223. [. . . ]