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Scan
The Scan module helps you perform on‑demand scans on files, folders, storage devices, and the registry and schedule automatic scans. It checks your computer for security threats, such as viruses, spyware, and other malicious software and creates logs of all scan operations.
When you click the Scan button, the Scan page is displayed. This page provides you with options for scanning the computer and peripheral storage devices, configuring the Scan module, and scheduling scans. We have more options under this module which is explained below.
Scan memory, registry and services
This option provides scanning options for memory, registry, and services. By clicking on this link, you will get a popup window.
Scan computer
This option scans entire system as whole.
Scan USB Drives
This option scans USB drives attached to your system.
Scan CD-ROM
This option scans CD-ROM once it is inserted in your system.
Scan Mobile
This option will scan the mobile devices connected through USB to the computer.
Custom Scan
This option helps you to configure the scan according to the specific need of the users.
Options
You can configure Scan options by clicking the Options button. This will display the Options dialog box, which provides you with options for configuring the Scan module. This dialog box has two panes: Virus Scan and Alert. Lets discuss them in detail.
Virus Scan
This tab helps you configure the actions that should be performed when an infection is detected. It allows you to set priority of the scan process as High, Normal, or Low. It also helps you to automatically recognize either all file types or only program files.
This tab has following options to configure your scan:
- In the case of an infection: This list helps you configure the action that should be performed on the file when it finds that it is infected. The actions are as follows:
- Log only: This option only logs the occurrence of the virus infection without taking any action.
- Delete infected file: This option deletes the infected file.
- Automatic: This action is set by default and tries to clean the file. If it is not possible to disinfect the file, it quarantines or deletes the file.
- Priority of scanner: This option helps you set the priority of the scanner in relation to other processes running on the computer. The priority level can be High (short runtime), Normal (normal runtime), or Low (long runtime). By default, the scanner runs with Low (long runtime) priority.
- File types: This option helps you to select the type of files that should be scanned by On-demand Scan. The options available are:
- Automatic type recognition: This option is selected by default and scans all files, but will ignore the files that cannot be infected.
- Only program files: This option scans only the program files or executables stored on your computer.
- Use separate exclude list for ODS: This check box is selected by default and excludes all the listed files, folders, and subfolders from monitoring during the on-demand scan.
This option helps eScan to separate the exclude list of on-demand scanning from real-time scanning exclude list. Once you click on Add/Delete button, you can add or delete the files, folders, and subfolders.
On the Exclude Folders dialogue box, you will find following buttons: - Add: This button will give you a popup window called Add to Exclude List and click an appropriate object type such as File or Folder, and then type or click Browse button to select the file or folder that you want to exclude. If you want to include sub folder of a folder, select Include Subfolder check box. Then click on the Add button.
- Delete: This button deletes any file/folder from the list.
- Remove All: This button removes all the files/folders from the list.
- Scan Archives: This check box scans both archived and packed files.
- Default: This button resets the entire scan configuration to default settings.
Alert
This tab helps you to configure the alert when it detects malicious software on your computer.
This tab has following options to configure the setting:
- Alert: In this section, you can configure the notification displayed when the virus definitions are outdated or when a specified number of days have elapsed since you have last scanned your computer. This section gives you following sub-options:
- Warn, if virus signature is more than: This check box is selected by default and notifies you if the virus signature is older than the specified number of days. By default, eScan notifies you when your virus definitions are more than 3 days old.
- Warn, if the last computer analysis was more than: This check box notifies you when a specified number of days have elapsed since the computer was last analyzed. By default, the value is 14.
- Log Settings: In this section, you can configure the log settings for the Scan module.
- Prepare log: This check box is selected by default and eScan creates an On-demand Scan log file at the specified path. The default path is c:\Program Files\eScan\LOG.
- Only infection to be logged: This option is selected by default and eScan will log information only about infected files and the action taken on them in the On-demand Scan log.
- Full log: This option if selected, the On-demand Scan log will contain information about all the files scanned by eScan.
Both the tabs has 2 common buttons:
- Save: This button saves the configuration.
- Cancel: This button closes the popup window without saving the configuration.
Scheduler
In this section, you can schedule On-demand Scan to scan your computer and storage devices for malicious objects. It contains a table, which displays name of the schedule, frequency of occurrence, and the next time it will be run.
We can configure the following options:
- Add task: You can add task with specific configurations.
- Clear All: This option will clear all the task from the list.
- Start now: Once you select the task from the list, you can use this button to start the scanning.
- Edit: This option will allow you to edit the existing task from the list.
- Close: This option close the popup window without saving.
Adding a task
This button helps you add a new scan task to the schedule. When you click this button, eScan opens the Automatic virus scan dialog box. This dialog box includes the Job, Analysis extent, Schedule, and Virus scan tabs. Let see each of them in detail.
Job
This tab helps you configure and specify the basic configuration for adding task.
Specify the following details:
- Name: You can specify the name of the task.
- Start Type: You select the start type from the following options:
- Start in foreground: This option runs the task in the foreground.
- Start in background: This option runs the task in the background.
- Quit: This section will help you to select the termination condition for the task. It has following options:
- Do not quit if virus detected: This option is selected by default and does not allow to quit automatically after it has finished scanning and a virus is detected.
- Never quit automatically: This option does not allow On-demand Scan to quit automatically after it has finished scanning.
- Always quit: This option allows On-demand scan to quit automatically after it has finished scanning.
Analysis extent
This tab provides options that help you select the type of scanning, and the list of directories, folders, or local hard drives to be scanned.
This has following options to configure:
- Scan Spyware and Adware: This option lets you to scan Spyware and Adware.
- Scan memory, registry, and services: This option provides scanning options for memory, registry, and services.
- Scan network devices: This option lets you to scan network devices.
- Scan local hard drives: This options is selected by default and lets you scan the local hard drives and has following sub-options:
- Scan System Drive: This option lets you scan system drives.
- Scan Data Drive: This option lets you scan data drives.
- Scan following directories and files: This option lets you add the directory and files you want to scan. You can add folders and files through Browse button.
Schedule
This tab helps you to configure the options for scheduling system scans. You can schedule scans to run either once or on a daily, hourly, weekly, monthly basis, when the computer boots up, or on a given date at a specific time.
It has following options to configure:
- Execute: This options lets you schedule the scan to run Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and With system startup.
- Time: This option lets you provide the date and time to schedule the scan.
Virus scan
This tab provides the same options as the ones present on the Virus scan tab of the Scan module. You can configure On-demand Scan to perform a specific action when a virus infection is detected. You can also set the priority of the eScan scanner in relation to other processes running on the computer. The priority level can be high, normal, or low. By default, the scanner runs with low priority. In addition, you can configure On-demand Scan to scan only program files or executable files.
To learn about it refer to the Options section from above.
After adding all the details, click on Apply button. The task will be added in the list.
Logs
You can view reports of the scheduled On-demand scans performed on your computer and storage devices in the Logs dialog box.
This dialogue box provides information of the generated logs such as File Name, Start Time, and Directory in which it is present. This also has following buttons:
- Refresh: This buttons refreshes the whole list.
- Clear All: This button clears all the log files generated.
- View log: This button is used to view the generated log file by selecting a log file from the list.
- Close: This button closes the popup window.
