How do I run a scan with Forefront?

There are 3 scan options, quick, custom and full.

A quick scan checks the places on your computer's hard disk that malware is most likely to infect and scans all currently running programs. To run a quick scan simply open Forefront, and at the top select Scan and it will start the quick scan immediately.

In addition, by clicking on the drop down on the right of Scan, there is an option for Quick Scan as well.

A Full Scan will check all files on your hard disk and all currently running programs. To run a Full Scan simply click on the drop down and select Full Scan and it will begin the Full scan immediately.

The custom scan allows to scan specific areas of your computer only. You can select certain drives, folders and sub folders to be scanned. However, if malware is detected, Client Security will then run a quick scan so the detected items can be removed from the other areas of your computer, if needed. To run the custom scan click on the drop down and select Custom Scan

Then select Scan selected drives and folders and then click on Select

Then select the drive you which to scan and if you want to scan only specific folders, then click on the + symbol on the left of the drive and it will show all the folders that are present in that drive. Then from there, by clicking on the + on the folder inside that drive will show the sub folders, if there are any present.

If there are no folders inside the folder selected then the + will disappear when you click on the +. For instance there are no folders inside the work folder, therefore the + has disappeared when it was clicked on.

Notice how some of the boxes are grayed out. They are drives that the computer recognizes that are on it, but there is no media in the drives. Where the A drive is the floppy drive but there is no floppy disk present. Likewise the D and E optical drives also do not have anything in them. When the computer detects that the drives have media the boxes will go white and it will display the title of the drive.

Note: if you select a drive and uncheck any of the subfolders the main box will go from white to gray to alert that not all the sub folders are checked.

Once the folders and drives have been selected for the custom scan, it goes back to the Select scan options window and click on Scan Now and it will start the custom scan.

During the scans, it will look something like this

Where the type of scan will be in ( ), if it is full, custom or quick.

How long will a full scan take?

That will depend on how large the total capacity of the hard drive and how much space is being used on the hard drive.