Running VirusScan On-Demand Scan

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∟McAfee Virus and Malware Protection Tools

∟Running VirusScan On-Demand Scan

This section provides a tutorial example on how to the on-demand scanner to scan for virus infections in memory, files, registry keys and Website cookies.

As we can see from the previous section, the On-Access scanner is running automatically a background service to scan any new files that are stored to your hard disk.

But once a while, you may want to scan all existing files on your hard disk. This can be done by running the On-Demand Scanner provided by VirusScan Enterprise 8.5.0i.

Click Start > All Programs > McAfee > On-Demand Scan. The On-Demand Scan Properties dialog box shows up:

Noticed that all settings on the properties dialog box are not editable. My guess is that configuration settings are centralized on the EPS (EPolicy Orchestrator) server. The current configuration says that it will scan: Memory for rootkits, Running processes, All local drives, Registry, and Cookies.

All I can do is to click the Start button. On-Demand scanner starts to scan any virus related issues on my Windows system. The scanning process may a long time, depending on how many files are stored on the hard disk.

The scanning process is done, the log file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Network Associates\VirusScan \OnDemandScanLog.txt will contain a nice report:

<date time> Engine version =5300.2777
<date time> AntiVirus   DAT version =5411.0000
<date time> Number of detection signatures in EXTRA.DAT =None
<date time> Names of detection signatures in EXTRA.DAT  =None
<date time> Scan Started HY\SYSTEM (managed) On Demand Scan 8.5
<date time> Not scanned (The file is encrypted) 
   SYSTEM c:\herong\test.zip\test.htm
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Scan Summary
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Processes scanned    : 10048
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Processes detected   : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Processes cleaned    : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Boot sectors scanned : 2
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Boot sectors detected: 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Boot sectors cleaned : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Files scanned        : 160021
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Files with detections: 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM File detections      : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Files cleaned        : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Files deleted        : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Files not scanned    : 1
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Scan Summary (Registry Scanning)
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Keys scanned         : 48024
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Keys detected        : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Keys cleaned         : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Keys deleted         : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Scan Summary (Cookie Scanning)
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Cookies scanned      : 139
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Cookies detected     : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Cookies cleaned      : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Cookies deleted      : 0
<date time> Scan Summary HY\SYSTEM Run time             : 1:48:43
<date time> Scan Complete HY\SYSTEM (managed) On Demand Scan 8.5