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Scan and Clean your Computer

 

  • Comodo Cloud Antivirus leverages multiple security technologies to immediately start removing or quarantining suspicious files from your hard drives, shared disks, emails, downloads and system memory.
  • The application also features full event logging, quarantining and file submission facilities. CCAV scans any file you open and immediately deletes or quarantines it if it is malware.
  • When you want to run a virus scan scan on your system, you can launch an On-Demand Scan using the 'Scan' option.
  • This executes an instant virus scan on the selected item or on the full computer. You can also use the right-click options to scan individual items.
    • Comodo Valkyrie - You must activate 'I want to enable 'Cloud Based Behavioral Analysis'...' in 'Sandbox' > 'Sandbox Settings' if you want to use Valkyrie to identify zero-day threats.


      To open the 'Scan' interface

      • Click 'Scan' from the 'Tasks Bar'




      OR

      • Click the scan shortcut button from the widget

      OR

      • Right-click on the CCAV system tray icon
      There are multiple types of antivirus scans that can be run from the 'Scan' interface.  The following sections explain more about each scan type: