Configuring a Manual Scan

You can perform an on-demand scan using the manual scan feature as a quick way to verify an infection. The features that can be configured are:

File Types To Scan

There are three main options for this feature:

    To remove previously excluded extensions, do the following:

Compressed File Scanning Options

To enable compressed file scanning, do the following:

  1. Select Scan compressed files.

  2. Specify the number of compression layers to scan. The permitted values are from 1 to 20.

  3. Specify the maximum file size that is extracted for scanning. The minimum value you can set is 1-MB, while the maximum value is 2000-MB.

Action When Security Risk Found

Do the following in this section:

  1. Decide whether or not to back up files before performing an action. To create copies of the files, select Back up file containing security risk before action is taken.

  2. Select an appropriate action from the following:

For viruses and other security risks you may also specify a secondary action, in the event that the clean action fails. Select the action in the drop-down list in the Second Action column. The secondary action is performed only if the first action performed is not successful.

The following table shows the default action for each type of threat when customized scan action is selected.

Threat Type

Default Action

Secondary Action
(if applicable)

Joke

quarantine

none

Trojan

quarantine

none

Virus

clean

quarantine

Test Virus

pass

none

Spyware/Grayware

quarantine

none

Packer

clean

quarantine

Other

clean

quarantine

 

Summary

These settings can be configured on the Manual Scan screen. On the left menu, click Scan Options > Manual Scan.

See also:

Configuring a Real-time Scan

Configuring a Scheduled Scan

Performing a Manual Scan