Comodo Antivirus For MAC

• Introduction To Comodo Antivirus
  • System Requirements
  • Comodo Antivirus For MAC - Installation
  • Start Comodo Antivirus
  • Comodo Antivirus - The Summary Screen
  • View Antivirus Events
  • Comodo Antivirus - Navigation
  • Understand Alerts
  • How To... Tutorials
    • How To Scan Your Computer For Viruses
    • How To Configure Database Updates
    • How To Quickly Set Up Security Levels
    • How To Change Language Settings
    • How To Password Protect Your CAV Settings
    • How To Run An Instant Antivirus Scan On Selected Items
    • How To Create A Scheduled Scan
    • How To Restore Incorrectly Quarantined Item(s)
    • How To Submit Quarantined Items To Comodo For Analysis
    • How To Switch Off Automatic Software And Antivirus Updates
    • How To Temporarily Suppress Alerts While Playing A Game
    • How To View Antivirus Events
• Antivirus Tasks - Introduction
  • Run A Scan
  • Update Virus Database
  • Quarantined Items
  • Scanner Settings
    • Real Time Scanning
    • Manual Scanning
    • Scheduled Scanning
    • Exclusions
  • Submit Files To Comodo For Analysis
  • Scheduled Scans
  • Scan Profiles
• More Options - Introduction
  • Preferences
    • General Settings
    • Language
    • Parental Control Settings
    • Log Settings
    • Update Settings
  • Manage My Configurations
    • Comodo Preset Configurations
    • Import/Export And Manage Personal Configurations
  • Diagnostics
  • Check For Updates
  • Browse Support Forums
  • Help
  • About
  • View Logs
    • Antivirus Logs
      • Filter Antivirus Logs
    • Alerts Displayed Logs
      • Filter Alerts Displayed Logs
    • Tasks Launched
      • Filter Tasks Launched Logs
    • Configuration Changes
      • Filter Configuration Changes Logs
• About Comodo Security Solutions

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).