User guide

Quick Heal Total Security 2011

Quick Heal Protection Center

Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.

User Guide

Select the type of archive that should be scanned

The list of archive file types that can be scanned during the scanning process is available in this section. A few important archive file

types are checked by default. You can customize the same.

Select All Click Select All to check all the archive file types displayed in the list.

Deselect All Click Deselect All to un-check all the archive file types displayed in the list.

Scan packed files

If Scan packed files feature is checked then the scanner will also scan packers. Packers are files that pack together many files, or

compress a single file to reduce file size. These files do not need a third party application to get unpacked. They have an inbuilt

functionality of packing and unpacking. Packers can also be used as tools to spread malware by packing a malicious file along with a

set of files. When such packers are unpacked it can cause harm to your PC. If Scan packed files feature is un-checked then the

scanner will skip packers during the scan.

List files while scanning

If List files while scanning is checked then the entire list of files scanned, along with their scanned status (i.e. Clean or

Infected), will be displayed in the Actions tab of the particular scan and also in the Scanner Reports.

Scan mailboxes

If Scan mailboxes feature is checked then the scanner will scan the mail box of Outlook Express 5.0 and higher versions (inside

the DBX files). Viruses like KAK, JS.Flea.B etc, remain inside DBX files and can reappear if patches are not applied for Outlook

Express. It also scans the email attachments encoded with UUENCODE/MIME/BinHex (Base 64). If Scan mailboxes feature is un-

checked then the scanner will skip mailboxes during the scan. By default, Scan mailboxes feature is checked which activates the

following two options:

Quick scan of

mailboxes

Select Quick scan of mailboxes if you want to skip all previously scanned

messages and to scan only new messages. By default, this option is selected.

Thorough scan

of mailboxes

Select Thorough scan of mailboxes if you want to scan all the mails in the

mailbox all the time. Selecting this option will considerably affect the speed as the

size of the mailbox increases.

The options Quick scan of mailboxes and Thorough scan of mailboxes are activated only if the Scan mailboxes

feature is checked.