The VirusScan program will scan the folder and report if it finds any viruses. If you find viruses, you should scan your entire hard drive and all floppy disks that have been in your computer. Any time you wish to check a file, folder, or disk for viruses, simply drag and drop it onto the Virex DropScan icon and the program will scan it and report any viruses. Computer Viruses are computer programs, created by people, which take control of your computer without your knowledge. They can affect your computer files and disks, and often replicate themselves.
Computer viruses can be destructive or non-destructive.
Destructive viruses perform harmful operations such as deleting files, scrambling information, or introducing errors into documents. These types of viruses often make files, and even entire disks, unusable. Non-destructive viruses may do things such as display a message or picture on your screen. When a floppy disk becomes infected, any computer into which that disk is placed may also become infected. When an infected program is run, any drive on which it is run will become infected.