Scan Modes

Dr.Web Scanner supports several modes of running a virus scan.

Express Scan

In this mode, Scanner checks the following:

•Boot sectors of all disks

•Random access memory

•Boot disk root folder

•Windows system folder

•User documents folder ("My Documents")

•Temporary files

•System restore points

•Presence of rootkits (if the process is run with administrative privileges)

Full Scan

In this mode, random access memory and all hard drives (including boot sectors of all disks) are scanned. Moreover, Dr.Web Scanner runs a check on rootkits.

Custom Scan

In this mode, you can select objects to be scanned, any files and folders, and such objects as random access memory, boot sectors, and so on. To start scanning selected objects, click Start scanning. In full scan or express scan modes, objects cannot be selected manually.

Scan process

When scanning starts, the Pause and Stop buttons become available.During scanning, you can do the following:

•To pause scanning, click Pause. To resume scanning after pause, click Resume.

•To stop scanning, click Stop.