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Virus Protection Settings

  • Open Norton AntiVirus by double-clicking the gold shield icon located on the bottom right hand corner of your screen in the Windows taskbar.
     
  • Double-click the Configure folder (located on left side)
     
  • Select File System Realtime Protection (located as a sub folder under the Configure folder)
     
  • Check Enable File System Realtime Protection (located on right side)
  • Under File Types, select All Types
  • Under Options, check Display message on infected computer
  • Under Drive types, check Network
  • Under the Macro and Non-Macro Virus tabs
    • Select Clean virus from file from the Action: pull down menu
    • Select Delete infected file from the If action fails: pull down menu


      Your File System Realtime Protection screen should look similar to above screen.
  • From the Norton menu on the left side, select Microsoft Exchange Realtime Protection (located under the Configure folder)
  • On the right side, check Enable Microsoft Exchange Realtime Protection
  • Check Display message on infected computer under the Notifications area
  • Under the Macro and Non-Macro Virus tabs:
    - Select Clean virus from file from the Action: pull down menu
    - Select Delete infected file from the If action fails: pull down menu

Schedule a frequent scan

  • Within the Norton AntiVirus program, double-click the Scheduled Scans folder (located on left side)
  • If a scheduled scan has been set, review it to insure it meets your needs
  • If a scheduled scan has not been set, select new scheduled scan and follow the prompts to create a scheduled scan.

Set automatic virus definition file updates

  • Select the File option from the menu bar
  • Select Schedule updates from the file menu
  • Check Enable scheduled automatic updates
  • Select the Schedule box to select daily, weekly, or monthly updates
  • Set the time of day this is to occur
  • Click OK
 
 
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