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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– Jokes (JOKES)
– Security Privacy Risk (SPR)
– Adware/Spyware (ADSPY)
– Unusual runtime packers (PCK)
– Double Extension Files (HEUR-DBLEXT)
– Phishing
– Application (APPL)
By clicking on the relevant box, the selected type is enabled (check mark set) or disabled
(no check mark).
Select all
If this option is enabled, all types are enabled.
Default values
This button restores the predefined default values.
Note
If a type is disabled, files recognized as being of the relevant program type are no longer
indicated. No entry is made in the report file.
12.8.3 Password
You can protect Avira AntiVir Professional in different areas with a password. If a
password has been issued, you will be asked for this password every time you want to
open the protected area.
Password
Enter password
Enter your required password here. For security reasons, the actual characters you type
in this space are replaced by asterisks (*). The password can only have a maximum of 20
chars. Once the password has been issued, the program refuses access if an incorrect
password is entered. An empty box means "No password".
Confirm password
Confirm the password entered above by entering again here. For security, the actual
characters you type in this space are replaced by asterisks (*).
Note
The password is case-sensitive!
Areas protected by password
Avira AntiVir Professional can protect individual errors with a password. By clicking on
the relevant box, the password request can be disabled or reactivated for individual areas
as required.
Password-
protected area
Function
Control Center
If this option is enabled, a password is required to start
the Control Center.