Run a Scan
- The 'Run a Scan' area allows you to launch an On-Demand Scan on an item of your choice.
- The item can be anything you choose – your entire computer, a specific drive or partition, or even a single file.
- You can also scan a wide range of removable storage devices such as CD's, DVD's, external hard-drives, USB connected drives, digital cameras and more.
You have two main options available when from the 'Run a Scan' interface:
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Scan a preselected area
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Define a custom scan of the areas you choose
Scanning Preselected Areas
Comodo Antivirus has two pre-defined scan profiles – 'Full Scan' and 'Quick Scan'. These cannot be edited or removed. They are:
i. Full Scan - When this profile is selected, Comodo Antivirus scans every local drive, folder and file on your system including external devices, storage drives, digital cameras.
ii. Quick Scan - When this profile is selected, Comodo Antivirus runs a scan of important operating system files and folders including system memory, auto-run entries, hidden services.
To run one of these profiles, simply highlight it from the list and click 'Scan' (or just double-click the profile name)
To run a scan on a particular item of your choosing, you first need to create a scan profile. To do this:
- Click 'Create New Scan'
- Type a name for your new profile in the 'Scan Profile' dialog (for example, 'My External Drives')
- Click 'Add' to choose the files, folders or drives you wish to include in the scan profile. You can select multiple items
- Click 'Apply' to return to the 'Scan Profile' dialog then 'Apply' again. Your new profile will be listed in the 'Run a Scan' dialog (see 'Create a scan profile' if you need more help with this)
- Select your new profile in the list and click 'Scan'
- Your scan will begin. Next, see:
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Tip: If you just want to run a quick scan on a file or folder, you can just drag it into the scan box in the 'Summary' area or, if the interface is not open, by dragging it onto the Comodo dock icon. |
| Tip: See Antivirus Tasks > Scan Profiles for more details on scan profiles. |
Scan progress and results
Before running the scan, Comodo Antivirus will first check for AV database updates. If updates are available they will be downloaded and installed.
The scan, based on the profile you selected, will begin immediately after updates have been installed. The progress dialog displays the profile name, the location that is currently being scanned, the start time and duration of the scan, the total number of objects scanned so far and the number of threats found.
Clicking
'Pause' will suspend the scan until you click 'Resume'. Click 'Stop Scan' to abort the scan process altogether.
Once the scan is complete, the results window will open:
The Results Window
On scan completion, the results screen will list the name and risk level of all threats found:
You can sort the results alphabetically by clicking the 'Threat Name' column header. Similarly you can sort the scan results based on the risk level by clicking the 'Risk' column header. To select all the entries for actions such as moving them to quarantine or disinfect, select the check box beside the 'Threat name'.
To save the Scan Results as a Text File
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Click 'Save Results' and enter the location in the 'Save' dialog box.
1. Select the application from the results, click the drop-down button beside 'Clean' and select 'Clean'.
2. Click 'Yes' at the confirmation dialog box.
The file will be deleted
permanently from your system.
To move selected threats to Quarantined Items
- Select the application from the results, click the drop-down button beside 'Clean' and select 'Quarantine'.
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Click 'Yes' at the confirmation dialog box.
The selected application is moved to the 'Quarantined items' section. See Antivirus Tasks > Quarantined Items, for more details on quarantined applications.
To disinfect a file or application
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Select the item from the results, click the drop-down button beside the 'Clean' button and choose 'Disinfect'.
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Click 'Yes' at the confirmation dialog box.
The antivirus disinfects the file if a disinfection routine exists. The file will be returned to its pre-viral state. If no disinfection routine is available, the file is deleted permanently from your system.
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Click 'Ignore'
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Once - If you click 'Once', the virus is ignored on this occasion only. If the same application invokes again, an alert will be displayed.
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Report this to COMODO as a False Alert - If you are sure that the file is safe, select 'Report this to Comodo as False Alert'. This will submit the file to Comodo for analysis. If the file is found to be trustworthy, it will be added to the Comodo white-list.
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Add to Exclusions - If you click 'Add to Exclusions', the virus is moved to 'Exclusions' list. The alert is not generated if the same file is discovered again.
'Scan Profiles' are the user-defined profiles containing specific areas on your system that you wish to scan and can be re-used for all future scans.
To create a new scan profile
- Click the 'Antivirus' tab on the CAV home screen
- Click 'Run a Scan' > 'Create New Scan'
A 'Scan Profile' configuration appears.
- Type a name for the scan profile to be created in the 'Name' box.
- Click 'Add'.
A configuration screen appears, prompting you to select the locations to be scanned when the newly created scan profile is selected.
- Select the folder or file path for scan from the left column
- Click 'Open'
- Click 'Apply'.
- Repeat the process to create more scan profiles.
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Note: You can also create new scan profiles by accessing Scan Profiles in the 'Antivirus' screen. |
Instantly Scan objects
You can instantly virus scan virtually any file, folder, photo, application or hard-drive by simply dragging the item into the scan box on the summary screen or onto the Comodo icon on the dock.
