Scanning Options

Scan My Mac option on Dashboard provides you with options of scanning your system in various ways so that you can scan as you require. You can initiate scanning of your entire system, drives, network drives, USD drives, folders or files, certain locations (Custom Scan). Although the default settings for manual scan are usually adequate, you can adjust the options for manual scan.

Scan My Mac

Scan My Mac is a complete scanning of your system. With Scan My Mac, you can scan the entire machine, files and folders excluding mapped network drives, folders, and files whenever you think your system needs scanning. However if you keep Virus Protection enabled, you need not run a manual scan. Moreover, the default setting for manual scan is usually adequate, you can adjust the options for manual scan if required.

To initiate Scan My Mac, follow these steps:

1. On the Quick Heal Total Security Dashboard, click the Scan My Mac list showing at the bottom right.
2. On the scan option, click Scan My Mac to initiate complete scanning of your machine.

​ Upon completion of the scan, you can view the scan report under Reports > Scanner Reports.

Custom Scan

With Custom Scan, you can scan specific records, drives, folders, and files on your machine that you require. This is helpful when you want to scan only certain items and not the entire system.

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Scanning Options

To initiate Custom Scan, follow these steps:

1. On the Quick Heal Total Security Dashboard, click the Scan My Mac list showing at the bottom right .
2. On the scan option, click Custom Scan.
3. Click Add to locate the path of the desired folder or drives that you want to scan.

   You can select multiple folders for scanning. If you want to remove a file from being scanned, select the file and click Remove. To remove all the files from scan, click Remove All.

4. To initiate scanning, click Start Scan.

   Upon completion of the scan, you can view the scan report under Reports > Scanner Reports.