NetShield's network integration features are good. If another server or Windows NT workstation has NetShield installed, you can view and configure the remote machine's installation of NetShield using the McAfee AntiVirus console. This can be used to initiate a manual scan or add scheduled scans to the configuration of that machine. The facilities are such that you're able to manage the services on the remote machine as effectively as those on the local machine, although the installation on other PCs must be done manually. VirusScan can be loaded independently of NetShield and used to manually scan the local disks.
Similar options are available, although a scan can only be initiated on one drive at a time.
The scan can be limited to program files only, including Word documents and templates, or all files. There's no exclusions facility in VirusScan apart from this. The log for a manual scan is stored by default in a different file to the logs generated by NetShield and scheduled scans. You can limit the size of this log file. In PC Labs' detection tests, McAfee's NetShield 2.5.3 lagged behind most of its competitors, detecting 97.95 per cent of the Wild List.