McAfee 5 manual What comes with McAfee VirusScan?

McAfee VirusScan Home Edition

What comes with McAfee VirusScan?

McAfee VirusScan 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 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 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.

nHostile Activity Watch Kernel. HAWK monitors your computer for suspicious activity that may indicate a virus is present on your system. As opposed to VirusScan, which cleans the virus, HAWK prevents viruses, worms, and trojans from spreading further. HAWK monitors e-mail clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and any other client that supports SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), but does not support Internet-based e-mail such as MSN’s Hotmail.

HAWK incorporates McAfee’s Script Stopper™ to detect, alert, and block malicious script actions to keep your computer safe from script-initiated threats.

nSafe & Sound. This component allows you to create backup sets in protected volume files, which is the safest and preferred type of backup. A protected volume file is a sectioned-off area of the drive, sometimes called a logical drive.

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