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information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their
electronic shopping carts
).
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Scan inside archives
(
off by default
): this parameters defines that the
scanning should check all files even if these are packed inside some type of
archive, e.g. ZIP, RAR, ...
·
Use Heuristics
(
on by default
): heuristic analysis (
dynamic emulation of the
scanned object’s instructions in a virtual computer environment
) will be one of
the methods used for virus detection during scanning.
·
Scan system environment
(
on by default
): scanning will also check the
system areas of your computer.
·
Enable thorough scanning
(
off by default
) - in specific situations (
suspicious
of your computer being infected
) you may check this option to activate the
most thorough scanning algorithms that will scan even those areas of your
computer that can hardly get infected, just to be absolutely sure. Remember
though that this method is rather time consuming.
Then, you can change the scan configuration as follows:
·
Additional scan settings
- the link opens a new
Additional scan settings
dialog where you can specify the following parameters:
o
Computer shutdown options
- decide whether the computer should be
shut down automatically once the running scanning process is over.
Having confirmed this option (
Shutdown computer upon scan
completion
), a new option activates that allows the computer to shut
down even if it is currently locked (
Force shutdown if computer is
locked
).
o
Define file types for scanning
- further you should decide whether you
want to have scanned:
