User guide

Quick Heal Total Security 2011
Quick Heal Protection Center
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External Drives & Devices
External Drives & Devices option in the Protection Center of the Dashboard allows you customize the settings that concerns
protection of your system against malware that may try to sneak in through external devices or drives like CDs, DVDs, USB-based
drives, etc. External Drives & Devices option allows you to configure the following settings:
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Autorun Protection
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Scan External Drives
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Data Theft Protection
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Scan Windows Mobile
Autorun Protection
Autorun Protection feature protects your system from autorun malware that tries to sneak into your system from USB-based devices
or CDs / DVDs using the autorun feature of the installed operating system.
Autorun Protection feature in Quick Heal Total Security can be accessed by clicking External Drives and Devices from the
Dashboard . Click the button to either enable or disable Autorun Protection feature. By default, Autorun Protection feature is enabled
and set to ON.
Scan External Drives
USB-based drives should always be scanned for viruses before accessing it from your system, as these devices have become the
medium for quick transfer of malware from one system to another. The Scan External Drives feature, if enabled, always prompts
you to scan USB-based drives as soon as they are attached to your system. By default, this feature is enabled.
Scan External Drives feature in Quick Heal Total Security can be accessed by clicking External Drives and Devices from the
Dashboard . Click the button to either enable or disable Scan External Drives feature. By default, Scan External Drives feature is
enabled and set to ON.
You can customize the scanning of USB-based drives by clicking Scan External Drives. The following two options will be
available:
Scan files on the
root of the drive
only
Selecting this option ensures that only the files on the root drive are scanned.
The files within the folders on the root drive are skipped. This option is quick
but less safe. By default, this option is selected.
Scan full drive Selecting this option ensures that all the files on the USB-based drive are
scanned. This option is slow but safe.
After making the selection click Save Changes to apply the settings.
Scan External Drives feature will not be performed if the feature Data Theft Protection is enabled, and its option Block
complete access to external drives is selected.