Real-time Scan

Real-time scanning provides constant protection against viruses. With real-time scanning enabled, you reduce the chance of your computer becoming infected. Because it is so powerful (and because it operates imperceptibly in the background), we recommend that you always keep real-time scanning enabled.

The real-time scanner checks files for viruses whenever they are used, for example each time a file is opened, copied, moved, saved, compressed or decompressed, downloaded from the Internet, and in the case of email attachments, read.

Besides monitoring file operations, real-time scanning offers protection against viruses entering your system from the Internet via file downloads (HTTP and FTP) and through infected email attachments. It even monitors compressed files such as ZIP files as they are decompressed.