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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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 this rule to all ports or only
to all opened ports.
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 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.