Scanning for Viruses using Mcafee SuperDAT

Mcafee SuperDAT engines are freely available on the Mcafee Official Site . So one can download it and save it in any folder say in "c:\sdat".

Now following steps has to be performed for scanning viruses or torjens etc.

1. Restart your system in "Safe mode Command prompt" because it ensures the least services are running on the ststem.

2. Now goto the folder and extract it with following command.

c:\sdat>Sdat5300.exe/e

Note : Engine name may vary because every day or two day new engine is released.

3. It will extract and will be of 19 files . Wait for complete extraction

4. Now start scanning with follwing command.

c:\sdat> scan /AD/All/clean

5. The scanning will be started wait for one or two hour as per your Hard drive capacity and usage.

Now enjoy your computing with virous free computer.