How to program a task of analysis at the request of the user

Introduction

NOD32 is an excellent antivirus application that protects your computer not only against the already known virus, but also against new threats. This is possible because the program make a combination of different methods for traditional detection of virus (based on companies) and methods of proactive detection (based on heuristic).

NOD32 is different from others programs of this kind, because it is extremely light and it consumes very few resources of the system. In addition, its graphical interface is very friendly and allows you to set up many useful parameters in a very easy way, as much for the advanced users as for the less experimented.

In this brief manual, we will explain you how to program the application to have automatically executed an antivirus analyse at the request of the user, with the frequency and schedules that you prefer. The possibility of having programs tasks is very useful in order to do not forget to execute fundamentals actions when talking of protecting our computer. The update of the base of virus companies and the daily verification of the system in search of malicious codes are some of them.

Instructions

1. Obviously, it will be necessary that you have installed NOD32 Antivirus. If you have not still down load it, you can do it for free entering in our web site.

The installation is fast and simple process. If you do not have much experience with this type of applications, we recommended you to you make a typical installation and to respect the predetermined configuration.

If you have already installed NOD32, you will see that in the tray of the system (located in the inferior–right vertex of your screen, next to the clock of Windows) it appears an icon of this application.

1. Press the main button of mouse on the icon of the program. The main window of NOD32 will be opened, from where you will be able to accede to the configuration for all the modules of the antivirus.

Select the System Tools NOD32 module to see the contain.

1. Between the Programs tools it is the Programmed Tasks section. When pressing the main button of mouse on this option the window that will allow you to form the automatic execution of different tasks will be open.

Press the Add button to create a specific task.

4. The assistant of creation of programmed tasks that will guide to you during this process will be open by itself.

It will appear an unfold the Select the task to program menu and you will need to select the NOD32 Scanner - Analysis at the request of the user option, that is the one that we want to set up for this example.

Then press the Following button

5. In the following window you will have to write a property name for the task that you are creating, that allows you to recognize it in the future.

You can also specify the periodicity with which you want the task to be executed.

In our example, we want that the analysis to be made everyday, so we will select the Daily option and then press Following.

6. In the next step you will need to define at what time you want to have executed the analysis at the request of the user.

Although the verification consumes a minimum amount of resources of the system, is advisable to establish a schedule in which habitually the computer is ignited, but many applications are not being executed.

After specifying the hour in which the analysis will be executed then press Following.

7. The last window of the assistant shows the detailed information of the task that you finish programming.

If you want to modify some of the values, then press the Back button, goes back up to the window that allows you to redefine the wished parameter and after all press again the Following button in order to finalize with the assistant.

When you are in agreement with the created task, then press Finish button.

8. The program will offer you the possibility of choosing a profile to apply for the analysis at the request of the user. A profile is a set of parameters previously formed. NOD32 includes a predefined group of profiles that used to fix for most of the users, but also customized configurations can be created.

The pull-down menu will show all the existing profiles, so that you can select the one that fixes better for you.

After specifying the profile which you will use for the verification, press Accept button.

9. If you have correctly made the described process, the new task will appear in the corresponding panel, along with the rest of the programmed tasks.

Summary

The following is a summarized list with the steps you will need to follow in order to program a task in NOD32:

1. Open to the main window of the application, denominated Control Centre.

2. In the section Tools of system NOD32, select the Programmed Tasks.

3. Press the button Add in the window that is opened

4. Follow the instructions that the assistant will give you, pressing Following in order to advance step by step and to set up the corresponding parameters: type of task, regularity, schedule, etc.

5. When you have finished defining the programmed task, then press the Finish button.

6. Select the profile which you will apply for the created task and then press Accept.

7. The new task will appear in the panel of programmed tasks, and it will execute the specified day and schedule, with the frequency defined during the creation process.