Sophos Anti-Virus 5 User Manual
Scanning items on demand
This section includes the following.
What is an on−demand scan?
An on−demand scan is a virus scan of the computer, or parts of the
computer, that you can run immediately or schedule to run at another time.
computer, that you can run immediately or schedule to run at another time.
Scanning local disks
To run a scan of all disk drives, including boot sectors, on the computer, do as
follows.
follows.
In the home page of the Sophos Anti−Virus window, click Scan local disks.
A progress dialog box is displayed and the Activity summary appears in the
Sophos Anti−Virus window.
Sophos Anti−Virus window.
If any viruses are found, click More and refer to Disinfection.
To stop scanning, click Stop scan.
For information on setting up, scheduling, running and configuring a scan, refer to
the rest of this section and Configuring scanning.
the rest of this section and Configuring scanning.
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