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 following configuration options are available:
– Scanner: Configuration of on-demand scan
Scan options
Action on detections
File scan options
On-demand scan exceptions
On-demand scan heuristics
Report function setting
– Guard: Configuration of on-access scan
Scan options
Action on detections
On-access scan exceptions
On-access scan heuristics
Report function setting
– MailGuard: Configuration of MailGuard
Scan options: Enable the monitoring of POP3 accounts, IMAP accounts, outgoing
emails (SMTP)
Actions on malware
MailGuard scan heuristics
MailGuard scan exceptions
Configuration of cache, empty cache
Configuration of a footer in sent emails
Report function setting
– WebGuard: Configuration of WebGuard
Scan options, enabling and disabling the WebGuard
Action on detections
Blocked access: Unwanted file types and MIME types, Web filter for known
unwanted URLS (malware, phishing, etc.)
WebGuard scan exceptions: URLs, file types, MIME types
WebGuard heuristics
Report function setting
– Firewall: Configuration of the Firewall
Adapter rule setting
User-defined application rule settings
List of trusted producers (exceptions for network access by applications)
Expanded settings: Timeout for rules, lock Windows host file, stop Windows
Firewall, notifications
Popup settings (alerts for network access by applications)