User`s guide

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Go to Antivirus > Virus Scan. To run a system or user-defined scan task, click

the corresponding Run Task button.

These are the default tasks you can use to scan your computer:

Full System Scan

Scans the entire system, except for archives. In the default configuration, it

scans for all types of malware other than rootkits.

Quick Scan

Quick Scan uses in-the-cloud scanning to detect malware running in your system.

Running a Quick Scan usually takes less than a minute and uses a fraction of

the system resources needed by a regular virus scan.

Deep System Scan

Scans the entire system. In the default configuration, it scans for all types of

malware threatening your system's security, such as viruses, spyware, adware,

rootkits and others.

Before you initiate a scanning process, you should make sure that BitDefender is

up to date with its malware signatures. Scanning your computer using an outdated

signature database may prevent BitDefender from detecting new malware found

since the last update.

In order for BitDefender to make a complete scanning, you need to shut down all

open programs. Especially your email-client (i.e. Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora)

is important to shut down.

Scanning Tips

Here are some more scanning tips you may find useful:

● Depending on the size of your hard disk, running a comprehensive scan of your

computer (such as Deep System Scan or System Scan) may take a while (up to

an hour or even more). Therefore, you should run such scans when you do not

need to use your computer for a longer time (for example, during the night).

You can schedule the scan to start when convenient. Make sure you leave your

computer running. With Windows Vista, make sure your computer is not in sleep

mode when the task is scheduled to run.

● If you frequently download files from the Internet to a specific folder, create a

new scan task and set that folder as scan target. Schedule the task to run every

day or more often.

● There is a kind of malware which sets itself to be executed at system startup by

changing Windows settings. To protect your computer against such malware, you

can schedule the Auto-logon Scan task to run at system startup. Please note

Antivirus Protection

BitDefender Total Security 2011