User manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Icons and emphases
- 3 Product information
- 4 Installation and uninstallation
- 5 Overview of AntiVir Professional
- 5.1 User interface and operation
- 5.2 How to...?
- 5.2.1 Activate license
- 5.2.2 Avira AntiVir Professional automatic update
- 5.2.3 Start a manual update
- 5.2.4 On-demand scan: Using a scan profile to scan for viruses and malware
- 5.2.5 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware using Dragamp;Drop
- 5.2.6 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware via the context menu
- 5.2.7 On-demand scan: Automatically scan for viruses and malware
- 5.2.8 On-demand scan: Targeted scan for active rootkits
- 5.2.9 Reacting to detected viruses and malware
- 5.2.10 Quarantine: Handling quarantined files (*.qua)
- 5.2.11 Quarantine: Restore the files in quarantine
- 5.2.12 Quarantine: move suspicious files to quarantine
- 5.2.13 Scan profile: Amend or delete file type in a scan profile
- 5.2.14 Scan profile: Create desktop shortcut for scan profile
- 5.2.15 Events: Filter events
- 5.2.16 MailGuard: Exclude email addresses from scan
- 5.2.17 Firewall: Select the security level for the Firewall
- 6 Scanner::Overview
- 7 Updates
- 8 Avira Firewall::Overview
- 9 FAQ, Tips
- 10 Viruses and more
- 11 Info and Service
- 12 Reference: Configuration options

Reference: Configuration options
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The advanced feature enables content filtering. For example packets can be rejected if
they contain some specific data at a certain offset. If you do not want to use this option
do not select a file or choose an empty file.
Filtered content: Data
With a mouse click on the link a dialog box appears in which you can select a file that
contains the specific buffer.
Filtered content: Mask
With a mouse click on the link a dialog box appears in which you can select the specific
mask.
Filtered content: Offset
With a mouse click on the link a dialog box appears in which you can define the filtered
content offset. The offset is computed from where UDP header ends.
Predefined rules for the ICMP traffic monitor
Setting: Low Setting: Medium Setting: High
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– Do not discard
ICMP based on IP
address
Allow ICMP
packets from
address 0.0.0.0
with mask
0.0.0.0.
Don't log when
packet matches
rule.
Advanced: Discard
packets that have
following bytes
<empty> with
mask <empty> at
offset 0.
Same rule as for
medium level.
Accepting of ICMP packets
With a mouse click on the link you have the choice to allow or deny special defined
incoming ICMP packets.
IP address
By clicking on this link with the mouse, a dialog window opens in which you can enter
the required IP address.
IP mask
By clicking on this link with the mouse, a dialog window opens in which you can enter
the required IP mask.
Report file
By clicking on the link with the mouse you can decide whether to write to a report file or
not if the package complies with the rule.