General settings - General

 

This section allows you to select which of the items specified below should appear in the items to scan selection tree. This section affects every part of the program in which the possible scan areas appear. Its configuration can be accessed through the General tab, which is displayed on clicking on General settings, on the program toolbar.

 

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Periodic Self-diagnosis. If you select the Enable periodic self-diagnosis option, the self-diagnosis will take place at start-up and every fifteen minutes. In this way, you will always have up-to-date information about the protection status.

 

CPU load management. By enabling the checkbox Enable CPU load management, the scan will be paused when the CPU load exceeds 90% in order to facilitate other tasks carried out during the scan.

 

Boot scan

The boot or boot sector of the floppy disks in the disk drive when the computer is shut down or restarted is automatically scanned when this checkbox is enabled. If you do not want to scan the boot sector of floppy disks in these situations, disable the checkbox Scan the boot sector of floppy disks on restarting.

 

Items to scan tree. Select each of the items that you wish to exclude from the lists of items you can choose to scan.

 

·      E-mail folders. When this option is enabled, e-mail folders (Outlook and Outlook Express) will be displayed. If this option is not selected, e-mail folders will not be displayed in the items to scan tree.

·      Lotus Notes database in servers. When this option is selected, Lotus Notes data bases and the items in the Lotus Notes database server will be displayed in the items to scan tree.

 

Several buttons appear at the bottom of this tab. By clicking on OK, the changes to the configuration will be saved. By clicking Default, the default settings of the tab after the was installed will be restored. By clicking on Cancel, the changes to the configuration will be neither saved nor applied.