Scanning Tab

On this tab, you can specify files and folders to be excluded from scanning. You can also enable or disable the heuristic analyzer which helps to detect suspicious objects that are probably infected with unknown viruses. By default, this option is enabled. It is not recommended to disable the option.

For details on a certain option, click a corresponding item in the picture. To get information on options available in other panes, click the necessary tab

Excluded Paths List

Here you can list folders which you want to exclude from scanning (for example, Quarantine folders, Program files folder etc).

To configure excluded folders list

Do one of the following

•	To add a folder to the list, enter the full path to the folder or click Browse and select the folder, and then click Add. The folder will be added to the list.

•	To remove a folder from the list, select it and click Remove. Contents of the folder will be checked on the next scan.

Excluded Files List

Here you can list names or masks for the files to be excluded from scanning. All files with the names which match the name or mask specified will be excluded from scanning (this option is appropriate for temporary files, swap files, etc).

To configure excluded files list

Do one of the following:

•	To add a file to the list, enter the full path to the file or click Browse and select the file, and then click Add. The file will be added to the list. You can also use masks. Details

A mask denotes the common part of object names, at that:

•	The '*' character replaces any, possibly empty, sequence of characters

•	The '?' character replaces any character (one)

•	Other mask characters do not replace anything and mean that in this place in the name must contain this particular character

Examples:

•	Report*.doc defines all Microsoft Word documents which names start with the word "Report" (ReportFebruary.doc, Report121209.doc etc).

•	*.exe defines all executable files. i.e. that have the EXE extension (setup.exe, iTunes.exe etc).

•	photo????09.jpg defines all JPG images which names start with the word "photo", end with "09" and contain exact number of 4 other characters in the middle (photo121209.jpg, photoJude09.jpg, photo----09.jpg etc).

•	To remove a file from the list, select it and click Remove. The file will be checked on the next scan.

To exclude a definite file from scanning, add the full path to the file including its name to the Excluded folders list (you can either enter the full path, or click Browse , select the folder where the file resides and type the name manually after the path).