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, the current report file of the Scanner component is added to the
email as an attachment when sending Scanner notifications.
Recipient address(es)
Enter the email address(es) of the recipient(s) in this box. The individual addresses are
separated by commas. The maximum length of all addresses together (i.e. the total
character string) is 260 characters.
Updater
The Updater component can send notifications by email to one or more recipients for
specific events.
Updater
Email alerts
If this option is enabled, the Update component sends email messages with the most
important data when a specific event occurs. This option is disabled by default.
Email messages for the following events
No update necessary. Your program is up to date.
If this option is enabled, an email is sent if the Updater has successfully made a
connection to the download server but there are no new files available on the server.
This means that AntiVir Professional is up to date.
Edit
TheEdit button opens theEmail template window in which you can configure the
notification for a 'No update necessary' event. You have the option of inserting text for
the subject line and body of the email. You can use variables for this purpose
(seeConfiguration::General::Email::Alerts::Email Template).
Update finished successfully. New files have been installed.
If this option is enabled, an email is sent for all updates carried out: This may be a
product update or an update of the virus definition file or of the scanning engine.
Edit
TheEdit button opens theEmail template window in which you can configure the
notification for an 'Update successful – new files installed’ event. You have the option of
inserting text for the subject line and body of the email. You can use variables for this
purpose (seeConfiguration::General::Email::Alerts::Email Template).
Update finished successfully. A new product update is available.
If this option is enabled, an email is only sent if an update of the scanning engine or
virus definition file was carried out without a product update, but a product update is
available.
Edit
TheEdit button opens theEmail template window in which you can configure the
notification for an 'Update successful – product update available’ event. You have the
option of inserting text for the subject line and body of the email. You can use variables
for this purpose (seeConfiguration::General::Email::Alerts::Email Template).
Update failed.
If this option is enabled, an email is sent if the update has failed due to an error.
Edit