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These settings control the way the scanner conducts it business. The setting are divided into four different sections:
General Option
Defines the way it communicates with the user.
Enable sound:
If selected it gives an audio alarm on virus detection. Default setting is ON.
Prompt On Detection:If selected, it prompts the user for action when a virus is detected. Otherwise, it renames all the infected files. Default setting is ON.
Create Activity Log:Creates a log file and keeps a detailed report of every scanning. Default is ON.
If Unrepairable File:Before removing virus from the file, Quick Heal performs a feasibility test. At times virus infects the file in such a way that it is not possible to recover the file properly. In that case Quick Heal marks it as Unrepairable.
There is no point in removing viruses from such file and damaging it in the process. Hence Quick Heal only provides 2 options
Rename the file. Renaming changes the extension of the file. The first character of the extension is changed to V. Thus EXE becomes VXE, COM becomes VOM and so on.
Delete the infected file.
Default Option is Rename.
Advanced Option:
This section helps the user configure the use of
various scanning engines.
Turns on the Integrity Checker of Quick Heal to
recover from the attack of unknown virus infection.
Default setting is ON.
Turns on the Heuristic Scanner for files. It should
be turned on to scan only if the files are suspected
to have a new virus.
Default setting is OFF
Master Boot Record (MBR) is the code section of Partition Table. Normally it contains a generic information. Quick Heal checks the MBR for this generic information.
In case of some cases, when third party utilities are used to setup the Hard Disk then the MBR may differ from the generic Information.
In case you get a Heuristic warning from MBR scan and you are sure it's not a virus, just turn this option OFF.
Default setting is ON.
Scans the files compressed in ZIP and ARJ formats.
Default setting is OFF.
It scans LZ compressed EXE files.
Default setting is OFF.
SCAN:
This section sets up the scanner for the files
to be scanned.
Scans only the files with Executable extensions. In case a file with executable code is stored with a different extension, the file will not be scanned.
Scanning speed is very fast.
Scans all the files irrespective of their extensions. It overrides the extension filter and looks for the executable codes inside the file and viruses with them. This ensures a secure scan but slows down the scanning speed.
It scans the files with specific extensions only.
Use the user specified extensions dialog box to add new extensions, delete extensions and reset the extensions to the default extension installed with Quick Heal. The file extension list contains the majority of executable extensions. If scan for user specified extensions is selected in scanner settings then Quick Heal anti-virus only scans files with extensions on this list
To add a particular extension to the default list, type your extension in the edit box given at the bottom of the dialog and click Add.
To drop an extension from the list, select the extension
and click Delete.
To Reset the extension to default list, just click default.
To accept the list press OK.