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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:
n The 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.
n On-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.
n The 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.
n Hostile 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.
n Safe & 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.