How to use Active Shield of McAfee Virus Scan?

Talking about the time when the internet has become a prime source for the hackers to steal the confidential information of the computer users, protecting yourself as well as your system has become very important tasks. For the complete protection of your system as well as on your online activities, you can’t rely on any just security software but McAfee. It can be availed via online or the offline mode; one can also try the trial version McAfee, which is active for 30-days to know how it works. In case, they like it then they can go for paid version for certain years. 



Active Shield of McAfee Virus Scan protects your system if by default it is put into an enabled mode. It scans and detects all the files and folders which are used by your system and cleans on any doubt. If they don’t do then you can put them into quarantine or delete the file.

Note- To get McAfee to activate product for your system, you need to click on the McAfee.com/activate link for the same.

If Active Shield anytime stops working then you can manually run and configure it to start automatically, after the system gets restarted.  To enable or disable the Active Shield of McAfee Virus Scan, you need to follow the correct steps as shown below-

To Enable in Windows sessions

1.      Click on the icon ‘McAfee’.
2.      Choose ‘Virus Scan’.
3.      Click to ‘Enable’.

To Disable in Windows sessions

1.      Right-click on the ‘McAfee’ icon.
2.      Select ‘VirusScan’.
3.      Click to ‘Disable’.
4.      Select ‘Yes’ to confirm.
In case you wanted to set ActiveShield to scan your sent emails for worm-like activity then you need to follow the correct steps for the same. WormStopper stops the virus from spreading further and monitors the email activity and alerts you when the number of emails or recipients has exceeded within the certain interval.
Check out the steps to set ActiveShield to scan your sent emails through WormStopper-
1.      Click on the ‘McAfee icon’ followed by ‘Virus scan’.
2.      Select the ‘Options’.
3.      Choose the ‘Advanced’ option.
4.      Click on the tab ‘Email’.

5.      Select the ‘Enable the WormStopper’.
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