VIPRE Antivirus User Guide - Sunbelt Software

Chapter 3: Finding Malware
This Chapter covers all of the ways that VIPRE can scan your computer in protecting it from malware,
including various scans, the command line scanner, the boot time scanner/cleaner, and managing scan
results.
About Scans
Generally, a scan consists of VIPRE reading your computer's drive(s), determining what is a threat, and
then either removing or quarantining that threat. The scope of a scan can be customized to target specific
areas or files on your computer and can be triggered various ways, including manually and automatically
at scheduled times.
Scopes of a scan:
Quick scan
A Quick scan will scan commonly affected areas of your computer. This scan is usually shorter in
duration than the Deep System Scan.
Deep System scan
A Deep System scan will perform a thorough scan of all areas of your computer. Depending on how
full your hard drive is, this could take longer.
Custom scan
A Custom scan is a targeted scan for very specific areas and/or types of items that you want looked at
during a scan. that you to scan specific areas of your computer only, including running processes,
registry files, cookies, and particular drives and folders
How a scan can be triggered:
Manual scans
A Manual scan is a scan that you perform on a as needed basis. If you feel you your computer may be
infected or just want to insure that it isn't, running a manual scan will allow you to protect your
computer.
See Scanning your computer for more information.
Automatic (Scheduled) scans
An automatic scan can be either quick or deep that you schedule to run at a time of your choosing. By
default, VIPRE is set to run a scheduled scan at 1:00 am. If your computer is not on during that time,
you will want to change that time to one more suitable. You can add as many scheduled scans as you
want.
See Scheduling Scans and Configuring Power Save Options for more information.
Email scanning
Email Protection is a behind-the-scenes tool that protects your computer from potentially harmful
inbound and outbound email messages. As long as you have email protection enabled, your computer
is protected with automatic email scanning of all attachments for malware and viruses without you
having to do anything. When an infected email attachment is detected, VIPRE will attempt to clean it,
ridding the attachment of its infection. If the infection is so severe that it cannot be cleaned, the entire
attachment is quarantined. VIPRE notifies you of detections and any actions that may be required by
you.
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