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 Protect network shares and NAS – Acronis True Image 2021 will monitor and protect the
network shares and NAS devices you have access to. You can also specify a recovery location
for files affected by a ransomware attack.
 Protect your computer from illicit cryptomining – Select this check box to defend your
computer from cryptomining malware.
3. Click OK.
To configure Real-time Protection:
1. Switch on the Real-time Protection toggle to enable Real-time Protection.
When enabled, Real-time Protection checks for malware all the files you interact with.
2. Select when the files should be checked.
 Smart on-access – all system activities are monitored, and the files are scanned once you
access them.
 On execution – only executable files are scanned as they are launched to make sure that
they will not damage your machine.
3. Select what to do with detected objects.
 Block and notify– The process suspected of malware activity will be blocked, and you will get
a notification.
 Quarantine – The process suspected of malware activity will be blocked, and the executable
file will be moved to the quarantine folder.
4. Enable the additional protection options.
 Detect malicious behavior in processes – enables Active Protection to detect new malware
by its typical behavior and block it.
 Detect and prevent malicious processes from exploiting the software vulnerabilities on the
system – enables Active protection to detect and block processes that try to exploit bugs and
vulnerabilities of other processes on the system.
Note All detected objects are blocked immediately. They will not be moved to quarantine, nor added
to the detected issues list.
To configure the Web filtering:
1. Switch on the Web filtering toggle to enable Web filtering.
When enabled, Web filtering helps to protect you from potentially harmful websites and
untrusted web resource.s by blocking the access when you try to open them.
2. From the Action on malicious URL detection drop-down menu, select what to do with detected
malicious URLs.
 Complete block – The access to the website will be completely blocked.
 Block and notify – The website will be blocked with the ability to proceed.
3. To configure the list of trusted or blocked websites, click Manage URLs.
1. To add a new URL to the list, click Add URL.
2. Enter a valid domain name.
Note All addresses from the domain that you entered will be treated as trusted or blocked. For example, if
you entered xyz.com as a trusted domain, all paths or sub-domains under xyz.com are treated as trusted.
3. From the drop-down menu, select Allowed or Blocked.
4. Click Add URL.