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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If this option is enabled, then WebGuard does not create a log.
It is recommended that you should turn off the logging function only in exceptional
cases, such as if you are executing trials with multiple viruses or unwanted programs.
Default
If this option is enabled, WebGuard records important information (concerning
detections, alerts and errors) in the report file, with less important information ignored
for improved clarity. This option is enabled as the default setting.
Advanced
If this option is enabled, WebGuard logs less important information to the report file as
well.
Complete
If this option is enabled, WebGuard logs all available information in the report file,
including file size, file type, date, etc.
Limit report file
Limit size to n MB
If this option is enabled, the report file can be limited to a certain size; possible values:
Permitted values are between 1 and 100 MB. Around 50 kilobytes of extra space are
allowed when limiting the size of the report file to minimize the use of system resources.
If the size of the log file exceeds the indicated size by more than 50 kilobytes, then old
entries are deleted until the indicated size minus 50 kilobytes is reached.
Write configuration in report file
If this option is enabled, the configuration of the on-access scan is recorded in the report
file.
12.7 Update
In the Update section you can configure the automatic receiving of updates and the
connection to the download servers. You can specify various update intervals and
activate or deactivate automatic updating.
Note
If you configure AntiVir Professional in the AntiVir Security Management Center,
automatic updates are not available.
Automatic update
Activate
If this option is enabled, automatic updates are performed for the enabled events at the
interval specified.
Automatic update every n days / hours / minutes
In this box you can specify the interval at which the automatic update is carried out. To
change the update interval, highlight one of the time options in the box and change it
using the arrow key to the right of the input box.
Start job while connecting to the Internet (dial-up)