Sunday, March 09, 2008

what is on-demand scanning?

on-demand scanning is a type of known-malware scanning where you select a resource (a file, a folder, a disk, etc.) and tell (demand) the scanner software to scan it (hence on-demand)...

unlike on-access scanning, this type of scanning generally does not go on in the background and is not invisible to the user - rather the scanner's user interface is displayed on the screen so that the user can monitor it's progress and tell it to abort if need be...

on-demand scanning is the type of scanning that's performed when doing a scheduled scan of a system (though the exact resources that get scanned are generally pre-selected for the user's convenience)... it's also the type of scanning that is performed when scanning a system from outside-the-box...

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