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2. If you created a VirusScan Emergency Disk during installation, or if your
VirusScan copy came with one, lock the disk, then insert it into your
floppy drive.
NOTE: If your VirusScan software copy did not come with an
Emergency Disk, or if you could not create a n Emergency Disk
during Setup, you must create a disk on an uninfected computer.
3. Wait at least 15 sec onds, then start y our computer again.
NOTE:If you have your computer's BIOS configured to look for its
boot code first on your C: drive, you should change y our BIOS
settings so that your com p uter looks fir st on your A: or B: drive.
Consult your hardware documentation to learn how to configure
your BIOS settings.
After it starts your computer, the Emergency Disk runs a batch file that
lead s you through an emergency scan operation. The batch file first ask s
y ou whether you cycled the pow er o n your computer.
4. Type y t o continue, then skip to Step 7. If you did not, type n,thenturn
y our co mput er completely off and begin again.
The batch f ile next tells yo u that it will start a scan ope ration.
5. Read the notice shown on your screen, then press any key on your
keyboard to continue.
The Em ergency Disk will lo ad the files it needs into memory. If you have
ex tended me mo ry on you r computer, it will loa d its da tabase files into
that memory for faster execution.
BOOTSCAN.EXE, the command-line scan ner that comes with the
Em ergency Disk, will ma ke four scanning passes to examine your hard
disk boot sectors, your Master Boot Record (MBR), your system
directories, program files, and other likely points of infection on all of
y our lo cal c omp u ter's hard disk s.
NOTE:McAfee strongly recommends that you do not interrupt the
BOOTSCAN.EXE scanner as it r uns its scan operation. The
Emergency D isk will not detect macro viruses, script viruses, or
Trojan ho rse programs, but it will d etect co mmon file -infecti ng an d
boot-sector viruses.
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