How to perform a scan of the computer

The full scans scan any part or component of your computer for viruses and other threats at a specific time. These scans allow you to select the areas or items to scan and are carried out straight away.

These characteristics make full scans very useful for checking that there are no viruses or other threats hidden in new file received via floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD, email or downloaded from the Internet. The full scans can also scan all the components of your computer.

With it is very easy to scan for viruses and other threats. Follow these steps:

Click Scan.
Select the item on your computer you want to scan for viruses and other threats. The options available are the following:

Scan all My Computer: When you select this option a scan will immediately start of ALL areas of the computer: memory, removable drives, hard disks, CD-ROM, DVD emails sent and received, etc. (This scan can take some time as all files anywhere on your computer will be checked).
Scan hard disk: Click on this option to scan ALL files on ALL hard disks on your PC.
Scan mail: Click on this option to scan ALL email messages sent and received.
Scan other items: Select the items on your computer you want to scan from the list by clicking the box to the left of each item (files, directories, etc.). Then click Scan.
Detect vulnerabilities: You can find out if there are software vulnerabilities on your PC, and increase the general security level of your computer.

Note: It is advisable that your PC is connected to the Internet during the scans. This means that can access the online database of new threats and increase its detection capacity.

You can also scan directories or files from Windows Explorer. This is known as the right-click scan. To do this, click on the secondary (right) mouse button on the directory or file, and select Scan with .

When the scan is complete, the results are displayed. You will see the number of items scanned, infected, disinfected and renamed.

From this screen you can get more information about the scans performed. To view a detailed report, click Report This shows the events that have occurred, the date, time and result, etc.