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• On-Access Scan — Opens the on-access scan property pages.

• On-Demand Scan -— Opens the on-demand scan property pages where you configure

and perform a one-time unsaved Full Scan.

Command line and using it to configure VirusScan Enterprise

Use the command line to perform activities from the Command Prompt. See

Command-line

Options

for more information.

Adding and excluding scan items

When configuring detection settings, each of the VirusScan Enterprise scanners allows you to

fine-tune the list of file types scanned.

Specifying scan items

Fine-tune your scanning capabilities by adding scan items to the default list or by creating a

specific list of extensions to scan.

Option definitions

DefinitionOption

File types to scan • Default + additional file types — Specify additional file extensions and whether

to also scan for macros in all files. The maximum number of additional file type

extensions that the scanner can accommodate is 1,000.

• Specified file types only — Create a list of specific extensions to scan. The

maximum number of additional file type extensions that the scanner can

accommodate is 1,000.

Specifying exclusions

Specify files, folders, and drives to exclude from scanning operations. You can also remove any

exclusions you specified previously.

Option definitions

DefinitionOption

Select the type of exclusion.What not to scan

• Exclude by pattern — Specify the pattern(s) and whether to include subfolders.

• Exclude by file type — Specify a file type(s).

• Exclude by file age — Specify the access type and minimum age in days.

• Protected by Windows File Protection — Exclude files that have Windows

Protection File status.

Using wildcards to specify scan items

When using wildcards to specify or exclude scan items, these limitations apply:

Supplemental Information

Adding and excluding scan items

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