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

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Accept / deny TCP packets
With a mouse click on the link you have the choice to allow or deny special defined
incoming TCP 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.
Local ports
With a mouse click on this link a dialog box appears in which you can define the local
port number(s) or complete port ranges.
Remote ports
With a mouse click on this link a dialog box appears in which you can define the remote
port number(s) or complete port ranges.
Application method
With a mouse click on this link you have the choice to apply the rule for connection
initiation and existing connection packets or only for packets of existing connections or
for all packets.
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.
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 TCP header ends.
Predefined rules for the UDP traffic monitor
Setting: Low Setting: Medium Setting: High
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– Monitor UDP
accepted traffic
Allow UDP
packets from
address 0.0.0.0
with mask 0.0.0.0
Monitor established
UDP traffic
monitor
Allow UDP packets
from address 0.0.0.0
with mask 0.0.0.0 if