Scanning a CD or a floppy disk

Your computer can easily be infected by viruses residing on floppy disks, CDs, and other removable media. If a floppy disk (or a bootable CD) you have used was infected with a boot virus, and you rebooted with the disk left in your drive, this may have gravest consequences to your system.
We recommend that you scan all removable media before using them.
You can scan removable media either from the Kaspersky Anti-Virus main window or by using the Windows shortcut menu accessed from Windows Explorer, My Computer, etc.

To scan removable media for viruses from the Windows shortcut menu:
select and right-click the drives (you can select the CD-ROM and the floppy disk at the same time). When the shortcut menu appears, select Scan for viruses.

To scan a CD-ROM or a floppy disk for viruses from the main application window of Kaspersky Anti-Virus:
  1. Insert the disk into the CD-ROM drive or the floppy disk into the floppy drive. Note that the application can scan both the CD and floppy disk at the same time.
  2. Click Scan removable drives in the left section of the Protection tab.
or
Using the Scan objects link, go to the Select Objects to Scan window, select "removable drives" and press the Scan button.

You can view the scan progress (percentage competed) in the Scan window that  opens immediately after the scan is started.

If you select only one removable drive for scanning, Kaspersky Anti-Virus will prompt you to insert the disk into the next removable drive after the scan is completed.

Note the following application features:
  • If the CD or floppy disk drive is empty or disconnected, the drive will not be scanned. No message will be displayed.
  • A CD, floppy disk or other removable media inserted into its drive after the scan has started will not be scanned.
  • If you eject the CD or floppy disk, or disconnect the drive while the scan is in progress, the application will enter error information into the report but no message will be displayed. After this the next removable drive, if one exists on your computer, will be scanned.

    • Each time a new removable drive is connected to the system (i.e. when the drive is detected by the system as new hardware), it will be scanned for boot-viruses.

     

    Kaspersky Lab
    WWW: http://www.kaspersky.com

    E-mail: support@kaspersky.com