Report
All the activity of the antivirus program is logged in the report. Its main
function is to serve as an historical file of the operations carried out with the
antivirus, as well as to record all virus incidents that have occurred.
To access the reportÆs configuration options, you need to be in Advanced mode (Differences between versions). By pressing the Configure button, you can access a window that contains several tabs. The Report tab contains accessible configuration options. Each incident listed in the report presents a series of fields.
These are the following:
Incident: indicates the action performed by the scan.
Job: this field indicates which type of scan has brought about the entry in the
report.
Date and time: this field records the date and time the incident occurred.
Path: indicates the complete path together with the file name for all incidents in
which this information makes sense.
Action: shows the action taken in response to the incident in question.
Use the button bar that appears at the top of the window to carry out any of
the following actions with the report:
Print: permits you to print the report, for which you need to select the name of the
printer, the page range and the number of copies desired.
Find: permits you to find items in the report. To begin the search, you first need
to enter the word to find and where (report field or column) you wish to search
in: Incidents, Jobs, Paths or Actions. You can select all of these.
File: thanks to this option, you can save the report as a text file (.TXT, in ASCII
format). This enables you to save and subsequently consult or move the file to
another computer. You need to indicate the name of the file, as well as the
disk drive and directory where it will be saved.
Delete: allows you to permanently delete the reportÆs contents. Once you have done this, the report window will close.
Filters: the purpose of this option is to present concise information. By means of the
available filters, you can choose to display different information:
- Type of scan: with this drop-down list, you can display incidents according to the scans
that were performed: All, Immediate, Scheduled, Upon Startup, Permanent.
- Program: this filter will only show the incidents that were produced in a determined
program: All, Platinum or Lotus Notes.
- Incidents: in this case, the information is filtered according to the event or incident
produced: All, Detected, Suspicious, Infected and suspicious, Errors, Disinfected, Renamed, Deleted or Moved.
- Date: this permits you to determine the comparison criteria (All, Before or equal
to..., After or equal to..., Between) to use when filtering information
according to date in the Start date and End date fields.
From the scan window, you can carry out another scan or action through the use
of the right mouse button, which will display a pop-up menu that permits you
to Show information, Disinfect, Rename, Move, Delete and Select all.