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Enforced Client Product Guide Using the Virus and Spyware Protection Service
Scanning client computers
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To view results of a manual scan:
In the Scan Completed dialog box, click Report to display the Scan Statistics report.
What is in a Scan Statistics report?
The Scan Statistics report opens in the default browser and displays the following information:
Date and time the scan was started.
Elapsed time for the scan.
Version of the scanning engine software and DAT file.
Date of the last update.
Completion status of the scan.
Location of the scanned items.
Status for scanned files, registry keys, and cookies:
How detections are handled
The type of threat and the policy settings determine how the virus and spyware protection service
handles a detection:
Files and programs Virus detections: The virus and spyware protection service attempts to
clean the file. If it can be cleaned, the user is not interrupted with an
alert. If it cannot be cleaned, an
alert appears, and the detected file is
deleted. A copy is placed in the quarantine folder.
Potentially unwanted program detections: If the virus and spyware
protection service is set to
Protect mode, detections are cleaned or
deleted. If set to
Prompt mode, users must select the response. See
Select a spyware protection mode on page 100 for details.
In all cases, an encrypted backup copy of the original item is saved in a
quarantine folder (see
Manage quarantined files on page 109). Data for
all activity is uploaded to the SecurityCenter for use in reports.
Registry keys and cookies
Detections initially appear as Detected. See Scan for spyware on
page 93 for instructions on cleaning the detections. Cleaning detected
files also cleans their associated registry keys and cookies. Their status
is then reported as
Cleaned.
Scanned
Number of items scanned.
Detected
The item is still a threat and still resides on the system. For files, they are most
likely contained within a compressed archive (for example, a .
ZIP archive) or on
write-protected media. For registry keys and cookies, the file it is associated
with has a status of
Detected.
Cleaned
The item was cleaned of the threat. An encrypted backup copy of the original
item was saved in a quarantine folder, where it can be accessed only with the
Quarantine Viewer (see Manage quarantined files on page 109).
Deleted
The item could not be cleaned; it was deleted instead. An encrypted copy was
saved in a quarantine folder, where it can be accessed only with the
Quarantine
Viewer
(see Manage quarantined files on page 109).
Items with detections How the service handles the detections