Run a Full Computer Scan
The 'Full System Scan' scans every local drive, folder and file on your system. Any external devices like USB drives, digital camera and so on are also scanned.
You can customize the items scanned during a 'Full System Scan' and set-up a scan schedule from the 'Advanced Tasks' interface.
Refer to Antivirus Settings > Scan Profiles for more details.
To run a Full Computer Scan
-
Click 'Scan' from the General Tasks interface and click 'Full System Scan' from the 'Scan' interface.
The scanner will start and first check whether your virus signature database is up-to-date.
If the database is outdated, CCS will first download and install the latest database before commencing the virus scan.
-
You can Pause, Resume or Stop the scan by clicking the respective buttons. If you want to run the scan in the background, click 'Send to Background'.
You can still view scan progress by clicking 'Task Manager' on the home screen.
- On completion of scanning, if any threats are found, an alert screen will be displayed.
You can use the search option to find a specific item in the list.
To use the search option, click the search icon at the far right in the column header.
- Click the chevron on the left side of the column header and select the search criteria from the drop-down.
- Enter partly or fully the name of the item as per the selected criteria in the search field.
- Click the right or left arrow at the far right of the column header to begin the search.
- Click the icon in the search field to close the search option.
- Click 'Yes' in the confirmation window.
The scan results window displays the number of objects scanned and
the number of threats (Viruses, Rootkits, Malware and so on). You can
choose to clean, move to quarantine or ignore the threat based in your
assessment. Refer to Processing the infected files for more details.