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: : √•Windows This section describes each of Disinfectant‚Äôs windows. xThe Main Window The main Disinfectant window is the one you will use most often. It contains the main controls for the application and it displays the report generated by the application. The main window is always open and cannot be closed. The operation of Disinfectant is controlled by six buttons in the main window: ‚Äú ‚Äú ‚Ä¢ Drive and Eject.¬†Use these buttons to select the disk you want to scan or disinfect. The Drive button cycles through all of your hard disks and floppy disks. The Eject button is used to eject a floppy disk. ‚Äù ‚Äù ‚Ä¢ Scan and Disinfect.¬†Use the Scan button to scan the disk you selected. Disinfectant will check the disk for infections, but it will not try to repair infected files. Use the Disinfect button to scan and disinfect the disk you selected. Disinfectant checks each file for infection and attempts to repair any infected files which it finds. For other kinds of scans, you can use the menus or command keys. The Scan and Disinfect menus are described in detail in the section titled ‚ÄúMenus.‚Äù You can also hold down the following key or keys while clicking on the Scan or Disinfect button: Option key: Scan a single folder or file. Command key: Quickly scan a sequence of floppies. Option and command keys: Scan all mounted volumes. √∑ √∑ ‚Ä¢ Cancel.¬†This button is active during disk scans. Use it if you want to cancel the scan. You can also type Command-Period or Escape to cancel a scan. ‚óä ‚óä ‚Ä¢ Quit.¬†Quits the application. Both the Scan and Disinfect buttons produce a detailed report in the field on the left side of the screen. When the scan is complete, you can use the scroll bar to view the entire report. ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í ≈í‚åò ≈í‚áß ≈í‚å• ≈í‚åÉ ≈í ≈í ≈í In addition to using the scroll bar, you can also use the up and down arrow keys to scroll the report backwards or forwards one line at a time (if your keyboard has these keys). To scroll up or down one screen at a time, hold down the command key while pressing the up or down arrow key (or use the Page Up or Page Down key on the extended keyboard). To jump to the beginning or end of the report, hold down both the command and shift keys while pressing the up or down arrow key (or use the Home or End key on the extended keyboard). Several other pieces of information are displayed in the top right corner of Disinfectant‚Äôs main window: √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï √ï The current disk name is a popup menu. You can click the disk name and keep the mouse button held down to get a popup menu listing all of your disks. This is an alternative to using the Drive button. During a disk scan, the names of the folder and file currently being scanned are displayed next to the small folder and file icons. In addition, a progress bar fills with gray to indicate the progress of the scan. The progress bar is only available on full disk scans. It is not present on folder scans, file scans, or scans of server disks. The three counters show a running total of how many files have been scanned, how many infected files have been discovered, and how many errors have been encountered. You can click the small Reset button next to the counters to reset all of them to zero. xThe Help Window This window displays the manual you are reading now. It is opened by the ‚ÄúDisinfectant Help‚Äù command in the Apple menu or by the Command-H keyboard equivalent. Use the scroll bar to scroll through the manual. In addition to using the scroll bar, you can also use the up and down arrow keys to scroll the manual backwards or forwards one line at a time (if your keyboard has these keys). To scroll up or down one screen at a time, hold down the command key while pressing the up or down arrow key (or use the Page Up or Page Down key on the extended keyboard). To jump to the beginning or end of the manual, hold down both the command and shift keys while pressing the up or down arrow key (or use the Home or End key on the extended keyboard). You can quickly jump to any section of the manual by clicking on the section title in the table of contents on the right side of the window. The table of contents is a scrolling menu. Click the triangles at the top and bottom of the menu to scroll up or down. √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä √Ä The manual can be printed and you can save it as a text file. See the section about the File menu for more details. Disinfectant offers a method to help you quickly locate information in the manual. Press Command-? (or the Help key on the extended keyboard) and the cursor will turn into a question mark. Then click any object in any of Disinfectant‚Äôs windows or select any menu command. Disinfectant will bring up the Help window and scroll to the description of that object or command. If Disinfectant issues an error message in the report, press Command-? (or the Help key) and click any error message line (any line that begins with ‚Äú###‚Äù) to get a detailed description of that error message. If Disinfectant reports that a file is infected by a virus, press Command-? (or the Help key) and click the infection message in the report to get a detailed description of that virus. Help mode can be canceled at any time by pressing Command-Period or by pressing Escape or by pressing Command-? (or the Help key) again. xThe Preferences Window This window lets you set various options and parameters for Disinfectant. It is opened by the ‚ÄúPreferences‚Äù command in the File menu. ‚Ä¢ Beeping option. Ô£ø Ô£ø Ô£ø This option specifies how many times Disinfectant should beep when an infection is discovered. The default is no beeping. ‚Ä¢ Scanning station options. √í √í √í √í If you wish, you can establish a special Mac in your lab or office to be used for nothing but checking for viruses. People can simply insert their floppies to have them scanned or disinfected. You can even remove the mouse and keyboard to discourage use of the Mac for anything but checking for viruses. If you do remove the mouse and keyboard, you should first build a special System 6 scanning station startup disk: Step 1. Make a copy of your Virus Tools floppy. Do not unlock the Virus Tools floppy, but leave the copy you made unlocked until step 9 below. Eject and put away your original Virus Tools floppy. The remaining steps will use the copy. Step 2. In the Finder, click the Disinfectant icon to select it. Then use the ‚ÄúSet Startup‚Äù command in the ‚ÄúSpecial‚Äù menu to set Disinfectant as the startup program for this disk. Step 3. Restart using the disk you just made. Disinfectant should run automatically. Step 4. Select the ‚ÄúPreferences‚Äù command from the ‚ÄúFile‚Äù menu to open the Preferences window. Step 5. Check the ‚ÄúScanning station with no mouse or keyboard‚Äù option. Step 6. Select either the ‚ÄúScan‚Äù or the ‚ÄúDisinfect‚Äù option. Step 7. Close the Preferences window and quit Disinfectant. Click the Restart button when you get the ‚ÄúFinder is busy or damaged‚Äù alert. Step 8. Reinsert your floppy disk after your Mac restarts. You should see a third file on the disk named ‚ÄúDisinfectant Prefs.‚Äù Step 9. Eject and lock the disk. This is your special scanning station startup disk. You should use this special startup disk whenever you restart your scanning station. Disinfectant will automatically start in its floppy scanning mode. You should need neither the keyboard nor the mouse at any time during the startup process. This scanning station option also tells Disinfectant to avoid any situations which might require use of the mouse or keyboard in the future. We do not recommend that you check this option in any other situation. Use it only for scanning stations. ‚Ä¢ Saved text file options. √ö √ö √ö √ö √ö You can save the reports generated by Disinfectant and you can also save text-only versions of the manual. These files are always saved as plain text files without any formatting and they can be read by any Macintosh word processor or editor. By default, Disinfectant saves reports as TeachText files and it saves the manual as a Microsoft Word file. This means that if you open a saved report from the Finder, TeachText will be opened, whereas if you open a saved manual from the Finder, Microsoft Word will be opened (if it is available on your Mac). You can change the applications which own these saved files. The boxes containing the names of the applications are popup menus which let you select any of the more popular word processors and editors. You can also type ‚Äúcreator types‚Äù directly in the fields to the right of the application names. You may notice that the popup menu for saved reports contains more application names than does the popup menu for the saved manual. This is because the saved manual is very large and not all of the applications can handle such large files. ‚Ä¢ Background notification options. √õ √õ √õ √õ √õ Disinfectant can run in the background under System 7 or under System 6 with MultiFinder. This option specifies how you wish to be notified if an infection is discovered or if Disinfectant requires attention for some other reason. The default is to display a diamond next to Disinfectant‚Äôs name in the Application menu (System 7) or in the Apple menu (System 6) and to flash the small Disinfectant icon in the menu bar. xThe About Window This window presents Disinfectant‚Äôs About box. (Our apologies to Monty Python.) It is opened by the ‚ÄúAbout Disinfectant‚Äù command in the Apple menu.