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- Help for Check diskettes window
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- Use Check diskettes to check a diskette for viruses, and to change the way
- this checking is done. Select the diskette you want to check from the Dis
- kette selection box, choose whether to check program files or all files, t
- hen select the Execute push button.
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- Help for Diskette selection box
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- Scroll the Diskette selection box display until the diskette drive that yo
- u want to check is visible, then select the diskette drive.
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- Help for Files to check on diskette
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- You can select whether program files or all files are to be checked. Selec
- ting Program files tells IBM AntiVirus/DOS to check files on the diskette
- that are normally executable. These are files that have file types of BAT,
- BIN, CMD, COM, DOS, DLL, EXE, OS2, OV?, PRG and SYS. Selecting All files
- tells IBM AntiVirus/DOS to check all files on the diskette. The boot recor
- d of the diskette is checked for viruses in either case.
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- Normally, viruses only infect program files. Checking program files is the
- correct thing to do in most cases. The only exceptions are if an executab
- le file has been renamed to some other file type or if a program uses over
- lay files that have some other file type. Usually, files other than progra
- m files are data files that do not become infected with viruses. Checking
- all files finds viruses, no matter what files they are in, but it takes lo
- nger because more files need to be checked.
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- Help for Check diskettes Save settings
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- Use Save settings to save the settings that you have specified (which disk
- ette drive to check, and which files are to be checked). When you select t
- he Check diskettes menu item at a later time, these saved settings are dis
- played.
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- Help for Check diskettes Execute
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- Selecting the Execute push button checks the diskette in the specified dri
- ve for viruses now. The files checked are the ones that you have specified
- in the Files to check box. If a virus is found on a diskette, you will be
- given the option to remove the virus or erase the file. Once checking is
- completed on one diskette, you are given the option of checking another di
- skette.
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- Help for Check diskettes Cancel
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- Selecting the Cancel push button closes the Check diskettes pop-up window
- and returns you to the previous window. When you select the Cancel push bu
- tton, any settings on this pop-up window that you have not saved are disca
- rded.
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