Bitdefender BITDEFENDER 9 Manual

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Virus Scan

In this section you can configure BitDefender to scan your computer.

The main objective for BitDefender is tokeep your computer clean of viruses. This is first and

foremost done by keeping new viruses out of your computer and by scanning your e-mail

messages and any new files downloaded or copied to your system.

There is arisk that avirus is alreadylodged in your system,before you eveninstall BitDefender.

This is whyit's a verygood idea to scanyour computer forresident viruses after you'veinstalled

BitDefender. And it's definitely a good idea to frequently scan your computer for viruses.

BitDefender allows four types of on demand scan:

• Immediate scanning - there are a few steps to follow in order to scan your computer for

viruses;

• Contextual scanning - right-click on a file or a folder and select BitDefender Antivirus v9;

• Drag& Drop scanning - drag and drop a file or a folder over the Scan Activity Bar;

• Scheduled scanning - you can program BitDefender to scan your system for viruses period-

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