When you start thinking about securing your computer operating system, McAfee antivirus software makes updates in its database with the help of an automatic network which scans the web and recognizes the malicious entities by type, name and devastating competence. Using the given data, the software does scanning for removing the malicious stuff.
Once the scanning is done, the software is ready to hinder the entrance of any malware on your computer system or removes it completely, if it is present in the system.
The Firewall
Once the McAfee antivirus database has made its updates, the software powers up the computer system’s firewall. Few antivirus software is not provided with the capability to make your computer safe from all the threads, particularly novel and complicated threats as all the software doesn’t require the search regarding the managing and identification of the Internet web’s new threats. This is not the case while using the McAfee antivirus program, and that’s why the firewall is almost impassable in this way.
No malware can reach and access your computer operating system without your permission (only if you allow it to) and a warning is made every time you receive any external or internal threat. The firewall in some edition of McAfee antivirus system may also reach the online browsers. Thus you are given the notifications about the dangerous and risky websites during you are surfing the Internet. If you allow any virus or malware to enter into the computer system after getting pass through the firewall by accident, through some downloading of an infected software or by opening the corrupted link, the last action which you can do is to run the virus scanning, which searches for the malware and kills it at the spot via manual deletion process.
The Virus Scan Tool
The virus scan tool is used for searching any virus in each file of your computer and makes a list of the malicious software which you can remove one by one at the end of scanning. Most of the antivirus software has this tool. However, the scanning done by these software programs can be effective only if virus database allows them to be. The McAfee antivirus database allows its program to find and remove the threads faster by doing a deep scan. Using each of its tools, it keeps your computer virus or malware free all the time.