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Overview of Avira Professional Security
Avira Professional Security - User Manual (Status: 14 Dec. 2012) 41
performed in the Control Center with extended administrator rights. These extended
administrator rights must be granted at the start of each scan via a scan profile.
 This icon starts a limited scan via a scan profile. Only directories and files that
Windows Vista has granted access rights to are scanned.
 This icon starts the scan with extended administrator rights. After confirmation, all
directories and files in the selected scan profile are scanned.
To scan for viruses and malware with a scan profile:
Go to Control Center and select the section PC PROTECTION >System Scanner.
Predefined scan profiles appear.
Select one of the predefined scan profiles.
-OR-
Adapt the scan profile Manual selection.
-OR-
Create a new scan profile
Click the icon (Windows XP: or Windows Vista: ).
The Luke Filewalker window appears and a system scan is started.
When the scan is completed, the results are displayed.
If you want to adapt a scan profile:
In the scan profile, expand Manual Selection the file tree so that all the drives and
directories you want to scan are open.
 Click the + icon: The next directory level is displayed.
 Click the - icon: The next directory level is hidden.
Highlight the nodes and directories you want to scan by clicking on the relevant box
of the appropriate directory level:
The following options are available for selecting directories:
 Directory, including sub-directories (black check mark)
 Sub-directories of one directory only (grey check mark, sub-directories have black
check marks)
 No directory (no check mark)
If you want to create a new scan profile:
Click the icon Create new profile.
The profile New profile appears below the profiles previously created.
Where appropriate, rename the scan profile by clicking on the icon .