Configuration: general

The section on general configuration allows the user to indicate which items among those listed below he/she wishes to present in the selection tree of items to be scanned. This option will affect those parts of the program having present possible scan areas.

CD-ROM drives

Indicates if CD-ROM drives should be displayed or hidden.

Network drives

Indicates whether or not network drives should be displayed.

Electronic mail folders

Indicates whether or not e-mail folders (Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook and/or Microsoft Outlook Express) should be shown.

Lotus Notes databases

Indicates that Lotus Notes databases should be shown as scannable areas in the diverse scans.

Report size

Since the report is kept in between different antivirus sessions, if it is never deleted, it may become excessively large after a certain amount of time. With this option, the user may control the size of the report so that it does not exceed a determined size.

Limit the report size to: allows the user to indicate the report size in kilobytes. When the indicated size is reached, the oldest incidents will be deleted in order to save the newer ones.

Boot Scanning

The Boot sectors of floppy disks that are left in the disk drive when the computer is restarted or turned off will automatically be scanned when this option is checked. If you do not want floppy disks to be scanned in these situations, just uncheck this box.

Note: some options are only available according to the specific product purchased and the configuration of your operating system. For more information, see Differences between versions