General

In the General section, you can configure the following settings of anti-virus check:

•Set the Use heuristic analysis flag so Scanner will check for unknown viruses via the heuristic analyzer. In this mode the Scanner may give false positives though.

•The Scan boot sectors flag so Scanner will check boot sectors of the drives. Both boot sectors of logical drives and main boot sectors of physical drives are scanned.

•The [Scan programs that run on startup] flag to scan files that automatically launched at operating system startup.

•Set the Follow symbolic links flag to follow symbolic links during scan.

•See the [Scan running programs and modules] flag to scan processes that are run in the RAM.

•Set the [Scan for rootkits] flag to enable scanning for malware that hides its presence in the system.

•Set the [Interrupt scanning when switching to battery mode] flag to interrupt scanning when switching computer of a user to battery mode.

•The Scan priority drop-down list defines priority of the check process relatively computing resources of operating system.

•Set the [Load level of computer resources] flag to limit the use of computer resources when scanning, set the flag and select from the drop-down list the maximum allowed load of resources by Scanner. In absence of other tasks, computer resources are used in maximum.

•The Actions after scan drop-down list instructs to perform specified action automatically when the check is completed:

▫do nothing—no actions perform on user computer after the check is completed.

▫[shutdown station]—shutdown the user computer after the check is complete. Before shutdown the computer, the  Scanner applies specified actions to detected threats.

▫reboot station—restart the user computer after the check is complete. Before restart the computer, the  Scanner applies specified actions to detected threats.

▫suspend station.

▫hibernate station.

•Set the Disable network while scanning flag to disable network and Internet connections during scanning process.

•Set the Scan fixed volumes flag to scan fixed hard drives (hard disk drives, etc.).

•Set the Scan removable media flag to scan all removable data storages such as floppy or CD/DVD disks, flash drives etc.

•In the Paths selected for scan field, specify the list of checked paths (how to specify paths is described below).

▫To add a new string to the list, click and specify required path to the opened string.

▫To remove an item from the list, click next to the corresponding string.

If you set the Paths selected for scan flag, only specified paths will be scanned. If the flag is cleared, all disks will be checked.