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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The Configuration opens a dialog box: You can save your configuration settings via the
OK or Accept buttons, delete you settings by clicking the Cancel button, or restore your
default configuration settings using the Restore defaults button. You can select
individual configuration sections in the left-hand navigation bar.
Accessing the AntiVir Professional Configuration
You have several options for accessing the configuration:
– via the Windows control panel.
– via the Windows Security Center - from Windows XP Service Pack 2.
– via the Avira AntiVir Professional tray icon.
– in the Avira AntiVir Professional Control Center via the menu item Extras |
Configuration.
– in the Avira AntiVir Professional Control Center via the Configuration button.
Note
If you are accessing configuration via the Configuration button in the Control Center,
go to the Configuration register of the section which is active in the Control Center.
Expert mode must be activated to select individual configuration registers. In this case, a
dialog appears asking you to activate expert mode.
Configuration operation
Navigate in the configuration window as you would in Windows Explorer:
Click on an entry in the tree structure to display this configuration section in the
detail window
Click on the plus symbol in front of an entry to expand the configuration section and
display configuration subsections in the tree structure.