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Setting Up & Scanning Guide
Setting Up
Setting up your Norton Anti-Virus is simple and absolutely
effortless. You open the installer, and select where you want the
program to be installed into. But before you even install Norton
completely, it'll begin protecting your PC! The screen below is
what you will see as soon as you start the install process;
Norton will quickly scan through your PC for any dangerous
viruses, notify you, and get rid of them -- all of that before
you even installed the application in full.
Configuring
Once you have the system up and running, you will notice that it
may state that the virus definitions are out of date. First, you
may be wondering what "virus definitions" are.
Essentially, the system has to know of a virus in order to be
able to get rid of it. So by constantly updating your program's
definitions, you're making sure that the virus program is aware
of every possible infection and that it'll be able to fight it
off upon notice. To update your definitions, when you're in the
main menu (as pictured below), select the Virus Definitions bar
and click on "Run LiveUpdate". Within a few short
minutes, your Norton Anti-Virus will be setup with the latest
updates and you'll be protected more so than before. Take a look
at the shots below for a visual idea:
Auto Protect
If you're poking around the program's features, you may ask
yourself what "Auto Protect" and "Email
scanning" is. First, let's talk about "Auto
Protect". It is highly recommended, and critical, that this
feature is always "on". What it does is it keeps the
virus program on full alert at all time; which means that the
second a virus or malicious bug enters your PC, Norton will alert
you about it, disable it (or isolate it to prevent harm), and
await for your instruction on how to dispose of it. You can
either quarantine the virus to a contained folder, or you can
completely dispose of it. Disposing of the virus is my personal
recommendation; it's never the greatest idea to quarantine or fix
the file if it triggers the program as being malicious to the PC,
just dispose of it.
Email Scanning
This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're using email specific
programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, and etc.,
then Norton will automatically scan all of your emails for any
harmful attachments or bugs. This is another feature I highly
recommend leaving turned on at all times, as it is extremely
beneficial to your PC's health. Unfortunately, it'll only work in
conjunction with email programs specifically. So if you're using
GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and so on...the program will not
correct or alert you of viruses present, because those are
web-based email services, so be aware of that. But, if you
unknowingly do open a malicious attachment, then the program will
immediately protect you against it.
System Scanning
Ahh, of course. Probably the entire reason you've acquired Norton
is not only to get rid of future viruses, but to also see if you
have any presently on your PC. Running the system scan is
incredibly easy; simply select the "Full System Scan"
bar and then click on the "Scan Now" tab and that's it.
Whatever viruses the program picks up during the sweep will be
shown to you. Below, when you look at the screenshots, you'll
notice that almost immediately the program found a bug in my PC
and had it corrected. I have two hard drives on this system, and
the program only read about 1% of the first one until it caught
one bug. Now, at the end of this scan I'll be left with a number
of options that I listed earlier -- fixing, quarantining, or
deleting. I will most certainly be deleting since I don't want a
virus present in my PC in any form, contained or not.
Scan Types
There are a number of ways you can perform a scan. On the left of
the main menu are three options: Status, Scan for Viruses, and
Reports. Select "Scan for Viruses" and you'll be given
a variety of different ways to scan. Do you just want to scan
your hard drives? Just the floppy disk? Removable drives (USB
keys, memory sticks, external hard-drives, etc.)? Just folders?
Just files? Whatever you want scanned in your PC, Norton will do
it -- even if it's a few files or just one. To scan a file or
files, you don't have to do it through the Norton main system.
Just find the file/files you want to scan, highlight it/them,
right-click and select "Scan with Norton Anti-Virus".
It's that simple. Below, notice both shots: one shot displays the
various ways you can scan using the Norton main menu, and the
other shot shows off how you scan without using it/if you just
want to scan a file or files.
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