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Bitdefender: Scanning Files for Viruses

We will cover the following:

How to scan a file using bitdefender.


1. Find the location of the file.

it is more than likely to be in your downloads folder, if you have downloaded it recently.

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2. Scanning with Bitdefender

Right click the file and choose “Scan with Bitdefender…”

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3. Checking Bitdefender

To find the results, Locate the up arrow on the bottom right of your screen. Right click the bitdefender icon (B), click show.

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4. Open Event log 

In the event log, find the latest contextual scan and click view log.

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6. Results

The results and statists should appear as drop menus.

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