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
Overview of AntiVir Professional
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Click OK.
The file is uploaded to a Avira Malware Research Center web server in
compressed form.
Note
In the following cases, analysis by the Avira Malware Research Center is recommended:
Heuristic hits (Suspicious file): During a scan, a file has been classified as suspicious
by AntiVir Professional and moved to quarantine: Analysis of the file by the Avira
Malware Research Center has been recommended in the virus detection dialog box or in
the report file generated by the scan.
Suspicious file: You consider a file to be suspicious and have therefore moved this file
to quarantine, but a scan of the file for viruses and malware is negative.
False positive: You assume that a virus detection is a false positive: AntiVir
Professional reports a detection in a file, which is very unlikely to have been infected by
malware.
Note
The size of the files you upload is limited to 20 MB uncompressed or 8 MB compressed.
Note
You can upload several files at once by selecting all the files you want to upload and then
clicking the Send Object button.
If you want to copy a quarantined object from Quarantine to another directory:
Highlight the quarantined object and click on
A scan dialog opens from which you can select a directory.
Select a directory where you want to save a copy of the quarantined object and
confirm your selection.
The selected quarantined object is saved to the selected directory.
Note
The quarantined object is not identical to the restored file. The quarantined object is
encrypted and cannot be executed or read in its original format.
If you want to export the properties of a quarantined object in a text file:
Highlight the quarantined object and click on
A text file opens containing the data from the selected quarantined object.
Save the text file.
You can also restore the files in Quarantine:
– see Chapter: Quarantine: Restoring files in quarantine
5.2.11 Quarantine: Restore the files in quarantine
Different icons control the restore procedure, depending on the operating system:
– In Windows XP and 2000:
This icon restores the files to their original directory.
This icon restores the files to a directory of your choice.
– In Windows Vista: