Scanning Your Computer for Spyware
You may scan for Spyware on your computer at any time.
- Open Anti-Spyware.
- Click the Scan Now button.
- Select a scan mode from the options provided. Choices are:
- Smart System Scan: scans active processes, registry, Internet Explorer favourites for banned Web site addresses, hosts file, and deep scans the registry.
- Full System Scan: scans active processes, registry, Internet Explorer favourites for banned Web site addresses, hosts file, deep scans the registry, scans within archives, non-executable files on the hard drive, and files larger than 4 Mbytes.
- Custom System Scan: a scan customized by the user to perform any combination of scans available in a full system scan.
- Scan for Ads: scans for tracking cookies, browser hijack files, and suspicious processes.
- Click Next.
- Anti-Spyware will scan your hard drive for spyware.
Note: Scanning your system can take several minutes depending on the speed of your computer and the size of your hard drive. - To cancel this scan click Cancel.
- When the scan is completed a summary screen will show you if any spyware was found on your computer.
- Click Next.
- The spyware files found will be displayed in the Scanning Results window.
- Select the checkbox for any object you would like removed from your computer.
- Click Next.
- Anti-Spyware will ask you to confirm the deletion of these files.
- To proceed and delete the files, click Ok.
- To stop deleting files click Cancel.
