# Bitdefender: Scanning Files for Viruses

**We will cover the following:**

How to scan a file using bitdefender.

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### 1. Find the location of the file.


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

![Screenshot 2024-10-17 095313.png](https://kb.9.technology/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/2g30jmi2T309GMzs-screenshot-2024-10-17-095313.png)

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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.

![Screenshot 2024-10-17 105601.png](https://kb.9.technology/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/zlVGkvX7nBznvN16-screenshot-2024-10-17-105601.png)

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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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