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 scan options, you need to be in Immediate scans or Scheduled scans and in the Advanced mode. Once you are there, pressing Scan options will open a window divided into several sections. The general report configuration options are found in the Report section. Those options are:

• Level of detail - Simple: at this level of detail all virus-related incidents are recorded. The report will also register all errors which could affect the level of security (for example, the inability to disinfect a virus because a diskette is write-protected).

• Level of detail - Medium: besides the data included on the simple level, all jobs are registered at both their start and finish. In addition, at this level the report includes all changes made in the antivirus that affect its level of protection (disabling of resident protection, etc.).

• Level of detail û Black box: this is a special mode intended to solve problems which may arise with the antivirus program. An exhaustive record is made aimed at providing the greatest possible quantity of information. We recommend against enabling this level if you have no problems.

• Size of the report: you can use this option to indicate a maximum size for the report and thus avoid letting it take up too much hard disk space.

The window where the report is displayed offers a series of options:

• Print report: clicking on this button prints the report so that it can be read on paper.

• Find incident: pressing this button opens a window which allows you to search for an incident by indicating a text and the fields in which you want to look for the text.

• Convert to text file: thanks to this option, you can generate a text file containing all the report data in order to make it easier to consult in computers where Panda Antivirus is not installed.

• Delete report: this option erases the report.

• Incidents: by means of this option you can select the types of incidents you wish to display in the report. This makes consulting the report easier when it has a great many entries.

• Date: this option is also intended to make consulting the report easier. In this case, you can choose to see all the incidents, only those which occur until or from a given date, or the ones which fall between the two dates you specify.

Each one of the incidents in the report has a series of associated fields. They are:

• Incident: contains a description of the entry in question.

• 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.