On-demand Scan Settings

On-demand Scan

See On-demand Scan for guidelines and instructions to help you set up the environment required to run On-demand Scan.

A brief description of the options on this screen is available below.

• User-initiated scan—enables user-initiated scan to run, provides the URL to the On-demand Scan screen, and allows you to specify the scan coverage

• Quick scan—scans certain directories. MORE >>

  • All fixed drives, such as C:\, D:\, and so on (excludes removable drives)

  • %SystemRoot%

  • %SystemRoot%\system

  • %SystemRoot%\system32

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers

  • %TEMP%

• Full scan—scans the entire computer

• Custom scan—scans the folders you have specified. MORE >>

  You can specify Windows variables that represent certain system folders. Only the following variables can be specified:

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%—returns the location of the All Users Profile

  • %COMSPEC%—returns the exact path to the command shell executable

  • %HOMEDRIVE%—returns which local workstation drive letter is connected to the user's home directory. Set based on the value of the home directory. The user's home directory is specified in Local Users and Groups.

  • %SYSTEMDRIVE%—returns the drive containing the Windows XP root directory (that is, the system root)

  • %SYSTEMROOT%—returns the location of the Windows XP root directory

  • %WINDIR%—returns the location of the operating system directory

  • %ALLFIXEDDRIVE%—All fixed drives

• Administrator-initiated scan—allows you to select the scan coverage

• Quick scan—scans certain directories. MORE >>

  • All fixed drives, such as C:\, D:\, and so on (excludes removable drives)

  • %SystemRoot%

  • %SystemRoot%\system

  • %SystemRoot%\system32

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers

  • %TEMP%

• Full scan—scans the entire computer

Click Save.

See also:

• Configuring On-demand Scan Setttings