Scan Settings

This feature helps you define about how to initiate the scan of your system and what action should be taken when a virus is detected. The default settings are optimal that ensures the required protection to your system.

Setting scan mode

To configure Scan Settings, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal Total Security.
2. On the left pane, click Protection and then click Scan Settings.
3. On the Scan Settings screen, click Scan Settings.
4. Under Select scan mode, select Automatic (Recommended) to initiate the scan automatically, or select Advanced for advanced level scanning.
5. Under Select action to be performed when virus is found, select an appropriate action.
6. If you want to take a backup of the files before taking an action on them, select Backup before taking action.
7. To save your settings, click Save Changes.

Scan modes

Automatic (Recommended): It is the default scan type and is recommended as it ensures the optimal protection to your system. This setting is an ideal option for novice users.

Advanced: This helps you customize the scan option. This is ideal for experienced users. When you select the Advanced option, the Configure button is activated and you can configure the Advanced settings for scanning.

Action to be performed when a virus is found

You can configure the following actions to be taken when a virus is detected on your computer.

Configuring Advanced Scan Mode

To configure Advanced Scan mode, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal Total Security.
2. On the left pane, click Protection and then click Scan Settings.
3. On the Scan Settings screen, click Scan Settings.
4. Under Select scan mode, select Advanced.
   The Configure button is activated.
5. Click Configure.
   The advanced scan setting details screen appears.
6. Under Select item to scan, select Scan executable files if you want to scan only the executable files or select Scan all files if you want to scan all files.
   By default, the Scan executable files option is selected.
   It takes time to carry out Scan all files and the process may slow down your system.
7. Select one of the following items for scanning:
   • Scan archive files: Select this option if you want to scan the archive files such as zip files and RAR files.
   • Scan packed files: Select this option if you want to scan packed files.
   • Scan mailboxes: Select Quick scan of mailboxes for a brief scan or else select Through scan of mailboxes to scan thoroughly.
8. Click OK.
9. To save your settings, click Save Changes.

Scanning archive files

This feature helps you configure the scan rules for archive files such as ZIP files, RAR files, and CHM files.
To configure the Scan archive files feature, follow these steps:

1. On the Advanced scan setting screen, select Scan archive files.
   The Configure button is activated.
2. Click the Configure button.
   The Scan archive files details screen appears.
3. Under Select action to be performed when virus is found, select one of the following options: Delete, Quarantine, and Skip.
4. In Archive Scan Level, select the level to which you want to scan the files and folders.
   The default scan level is set to level 2. Increasing the default scan level may affect the scan speed.
5. Under Select the type of archive that should be scanned, select the archive files types.
6. To save your settings, click OK.

Action to be taken when a virus is found

The following table describes various actions and their description.

Selecting the type of archive to be scanned

A list of archives that can be included for scan during the scanning process is available in this section. Few of the common archives are selected by default that you can customize based on your requirement.

The following table describes the archive types.

Scanning packed files

This feature helps you scan packers or compressed files. Packers are the files that group many files or compress them into a single file to reduce the file size. Moreover, these files do not need a third-party application to get unpacked. They have an inbuilt functionality for packing and unpacking.

Packers can also be used as tools to spread malware by packing a malicious file along with a set of files. When such packers are unpacked they can cause harm to your computer system. If you want to scan packers, select the Scan packed files option.

Scanning mailboxes

This feature allows you to scan the mailbox of Outlook Express 5.0 and later versions (inside the DBX files). Viruses such as KAK and JS.Flea.B, remain inside the DBX files and can reappear if patches are not applied for Outlook Express. The feature also scans the email attachments encoded with UUENCODE/MIME/BinHex (Base 64). Scan mailboxes is selected by default which activates the following two options.