Manual Scanning
- Click 'Antivirus' > 'Scanner Settings' > 'Manual Scanning' to open this interface
- A manual scan is one that you run on-demand on a drive, file/folder, or your entire computer
- For example, these options will be used when you click 'Scan Now' on the home screen or 'Run A Scan' in the antivirus tasks menu.
- Scan memory on start – CAV will scans system memory (RAM) at the start of a manual scan(Default = Disabled).
- Scan archive files – CAV will scan compressed files such as .ZIP and .RAR files. (Default = Enabled)
- Automatically quarantine threats found during scanning - CCAV will encrypt discovered threats and move them to a safe holding area known as 'quarantine'. Files in quarantine cannot run and pose no threat to your system. You can review quarantined files and permanently delete or restore them as required (Default = Disabled).
- Automatically update virus database before scanning - Comodo Antivirus will check for and download the latest virus database updates on system start-up and at regular intervals.(Default = Enabled) .
There are separate update options in for real time, manual and scheduled scanning settings. Disabling here will switch off auto - updates for this scan type only. Updates can be downloaded manually by clicking 'Antivirus' > 'Update Virus database'. See 'Update Virus Database' for more details.
- Do not scan files larger than - Set the maximum size (in MB) that should be scanned by the on-access scanner. Files larger than the size specified here will not be scanned. (Default = 20 MB).