{"id":2118,"date":"2014-10-21T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2014-10-21T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:39:19","slug":"how-to-use-mcafee-stinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-use-mcafee-stinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use McAfee Stinger to Protect Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee Stinger is a standalone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but a specialized tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with infected system. Stinger utilizes next-generation scan technology, including rootkit scanning, and scan performance optimizations. It detects and removes threats identified under the &#8220;Threat List&#8221; option under Advanced menu options in the Stinger application. Here is an instruction to tell you how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Download and install McAfee Labs Stinger from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/search\/McAfee%2520Stinger\/#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.ie=UTF8&amp;gsc.sort=&amp;gsc.q=McAfee%20Stinger\">http:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/search\/McAfee%2520Stinger\/#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.ie=UTF8&amp;gsc.sort=&amp;gsc.q=McAfee%20Stinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HFquJ16654461b92f2fa3805862729.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"590\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Click on the \u201cCustomize my scan\u201d button to select the folders you want to scan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DmAWY27954461b97149ef638108290.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"597\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. You can click \u201cAdvanced\u201d and set black list, threat list and do other settings as you need.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/HuvYU75454461b9a7803b656366554.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"590\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Click on \u201cScan\u201d to begin the scanning process. Any infected files will be repaired automatically without user intervention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hHXPA89054461b9db4f9e365854538.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"590\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee Stinger is a standalone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but a specialized tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with infected system. Stinger utilizes next-generation scan technology, including rootkit scanning, and scan performance optimizations. It detects and removes threats identified under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}