McAfee Version 7.0 instruction

Welcome to McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0

nMicrosoft Office Integration: VirusScan 7 scans Microsoft Office 2000+ documents to provide extra protection to users of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (2000+) in the event that VShield background scanning must be disabled.

nUsability enhancements: McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0 includes many user interface enhancements to make it easier than ever to keep your computer and electronic files virus free.

What comes with McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0?

McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0 consists of several components that combine one or more related programs, each of which play a part in defending your computer against viruses and other malicious software. These components are:

nThe VirusScan Home page. This is your central entry point in using all of tasks and components. The Home page provides relevant information such as your computer’s current Automatic Protection Settings status and version information about your virus definitions. The Home page also informs you if an update to McAfee VirusScan Home Edition is available for download and the total number of scan operations performed.

nOn-Demand Scanning (ODS). On-demand scanning enables you to scan at any time. For example, if you suspect you have come in contact with an infected file, but have not accessed the file, you may manually scan the suspect file, folder, drive, etc.

To perform an on-demand scan, simply select the Scan for viruses now task from the McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0 Home page.

nThe VShield Scanner. This is an On-access Scanning (OAS) component that gives you continuous anti-virus protection from viruses that arrive on floppy disks, from your network, or from various sources on the Internet. The VShield scanner starts when you start your computer, and stays in memory until you shut down. A flexible set of property pages lets you tell the scanner which parts of your system to examine, what to look for, which parts to leave alone, and how to respond to any infected files it finds. In addition, the scanner can alert you when it finds a virus, and can summarize each of its actions.

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