McAfee 5 manual Other McAfee VirusScan features, About the McAfee list, The VShield Tray Icon

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About the McAfee list

McAfee VirusScan Home Edition

nConfigure Instant Updater: Instant Updater is the mechanism used to register your product and to communicate with McAfee to check for an update to virus definition files (DATs), the virus scanning engine, and for updates to the McAfee VirusScan product. Select this advanced task to check for updates to McAfee VirusScan.

About the McAfee list

The McAfee list displays links to start the Home page to any other supported McAfee product.

Other McAfee VirusScan features

The VShield Tray Icon

The VShield icon located in the Windows system tray allows you to perform several tasks.

nLaunch VirusScan: Select this option to Start McAfee VirusScan, if it is not running.

nView VirusScan Status: Select this option to view the VirusScan background scanner (VShield) property sheet. Here you can view real-time status information about VirusScan’s background scan modules.

nDisable VirusScan: Select this option to stop VirusScan’s background scanner (VShield).

nAbout VirusScan: This option provides you with version information about McAfee VirusScan.

Windows Explorer plug-in

With functionality similar to that of the VShield system tray icon, you can display a VirusScan toolbar in Windows Explorer.

To display the VirusScan toolbar, right-click the Windows Explorer toolbar and select McAfee VirusScan. The VirusScan toolbar allows you to:

nScan objects displayed in Windows Explorer. For example, you can select a file, group of files, folder, or a drive.

To use this feature, select the object you want to scan in Windows Explorer. Click the VirusScan toolbar drop-down arrow and click Scan for Viruses.

nView current VirusScan Status information. To view real-time scan data about System scan, E-mail scan, and HAWK.

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