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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TheEdit button opens theEmail template window in which you can configure the
notification for an 'Update failed’ 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).
Add report file as attachment
If this option is enabled, the current report file of the Updater component is added to
the email as an attachment when sending Updater notifications.
Recipient(s)
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.
Note
Warning messages are always sent by email for the following events if a SMTP server and
a recipient address have been configured for Updater notifications:
A product update is required for every further update of AntiVir Professional.
An update of the scanning engine or of the virus definition file could not be carried out
as a product update is necessary.
These warning messages are sent irrespective of your email warning settings for the
Update component.
Email template
In theEmail template window you can configure the email notifications for the individual
components to the enabled events . You can insert text of up to a maximum of 128
characters in the subject line and up to a maximum of 1024 characters in the message
field.
The following variables can be used in the email subject and email message:
Globally acceptable variables
Variable Value
Windows environment
variables
The email notifications component supports all
Windows environment variables.
%SYSTEM_IP% IP address of the computer:
%FQDN% Fully qualified domain name
%TIMESTAMP% Event time stamp: Time and date format as per the
language settings of the operating system
%COMPUTERNAME% NetBIOS computer name
%USERNAME% Name of user accessing the component
%PRODUCTVER% Product version
%PRODUCTNAME% Product name
%MODULENAME% Name of the component sending the email
%MODULEVER% Version of the component sending the email