Welcome to McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0
nWireless device protection. In addition to total anti-virus protection for your PC, VirusScan protects your wireless device and PC from harmful viruses transferred during the synchronization process.
nCommand-line Scanners. This component consists of a set of full-featured scanners you can use to run targeted scan operations from the MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt windows, or from protected MS-DOS mode. The set includes:
MSCAN.EXE, a scanner for 32-bit environments only. This is the primary command-line interface. When you run this file, it first checks its environment to see whether it can run by itself. If your computer is running in 16-bit or protected mode, it will transfer control to one of the other scanners.
MSCANPM.EXE, a scanner for 16-bit and 32-bit environments. This scanner provides you with a full set of scanning options for 16-bit and 32-bit protected-mode DOS environments. It also includes support for extended memory and flexible memory allocations. SCAN.EXE will transfer control to this scanner when its specialized capabilities can enable your scan operation to run more efficiently.
MSCAN86.EXE, a scanner for 16-bit environments only. This scanner includes a limited set of capabilities geared to 16-bit environments. SCAN.EXE will transfer control to this scanner if your computer is running in 16-bit mode, but without special memory configurations.
MBOOTSCAN.EXE, a smaller, specialized scanner for use primarily with the Emergency Disk utility. This scanner ordinarily runs from a floppy disk you create to provide you with a virus-free boot environment.
All of the command-line scanners allow you to initiate targeted scan operations from an MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt window, or from protected MS-DOS mode. Ordinarily, you'll use the VirusScan application's graphical user interface (GUI) to perform most scanning operations, but if you have trouble starting Windows or if the VirusScan GUI components will not run in your environment, you can use the command-line scanners as a backup.
