User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Bitdefender Antivirus Plus
- Table of Contents
- Installation
- Getting started
- How to
- 8. Installation
- 8.1. How do I install Bitdefender on a second computer?
- 8.2. How can I reinstall Bitdefender?
- 8.3. Where can I download my Bitdefender product from?
- 8.4. How can I change the language of my Bitdefender product?
- 8.5. How do I use my Bitdefender subscription after a Windows upgrade?
- 8.6. How can I upgrade to the latest Bitdefender version?
- 9. Subscriptions
- 10. Bitdefender Central
- 11. Scanning with Bitdefender
- 11.1. How do I scan a file or a folder?
- 11.2. How do I scan my system?
- 11.3. How do I schedule a scan?
- 11.4. How do I create a custom scan task?
- 11.5. How do I except a folder from being scanned?
- 11.6. What to do when Bitdefender detected a clean file as infected?
- 11.7. How do I check what threats Bitdefender detected?
- 12. Privacy protection
- 13. Useful Information
- 13.1. How do I test my security solution?
- 13.2. How do I remove Bitdefender?
- 13.3. How do I remove Bitdefender VPN?
- 13.4. How do I automatically shut down the computer after the scan is over?
- 13.5. How do I configure Bitdefender to use a proxy internet connection?
- 13.6. Am I using a 32 bit or a 64 bit version of Windows?
- 13.7. How do I display hidden objects in Windows?
- 13.8. How do I remove other security solutions?
- 13.9. How do I restart in Safe Mode?
- 8. Installation
- Managing your security
- 14. Antivirus protection
- 15. Advanced Threat Defense
- 16. Online Threat Prevention
- 17. Vulnerability
- 18. Safe Files
- 19. Ransomware Remediation
- 20. Password Manager protection for your credentials
- 21. VPN
- 22. Safepay security for online transactions
- 23. Data Protection
- 24. USB Immunizer
- System optimization
- Troubleshooting
- 26. Solving common issues
- 26.1. My system appears to be slow
- 26.2. Scan doesn't start
- 26.3. I can no longer use an app
- 26.4. What to do when Bitdefender blocks a safe website or online app
- 26.5. What to do if Bitdefender detects a safe app as ransomware
- 26.6. How to update Bitdefender on a slow internet connection
- 26.7. Bitdefender services are not responding
- 26.8. The Autofill feature in my Wallet doesn't work
- 26.9. Bitdefender removal failed
- 26.10. My system doesn't boot up after installing Bitdefender
- 27. Removing threats from your system
- 27.1. Bitdefender Rescue Mode (Rescue Environment in Windows 10)
- 27.2. What to do when Bitdefender finds threats on your computer?
- 27.3. How do I clean a threat in an archive?
- 27.4. How do I clean a threat in an email archive?
- 27.5. What to do if I suspect a file as being dangerous?
- 27.6. What are the password-protected files in the scan log?
- 27.7. What are the skipped items in the scan log?
- 27.8. What are the over-compressed files in the scan log?
- 27.9. Why did Bitdefender automatically delete an infected file?
- 26. Solving common issues
- Contact us
- Glossary
A paned window is displayed.
4. Scroll down on the window to configure the scan settings as needed.
Information on the scan options
You may find this information useful:
● Scan only applications. You can set Bitdefender to scan only accessed
apps.
● Scan potentially unwanted applications. Select this option to scan for
unwanted applications. A potentially unwanted application (PUA) or
potentially unwanted program (PUP) is a software that usually comes
bundled with freeware software and will display pop-ups or install a toolbar
in the default browser. Some of them will change the homepage or the
search engine, others will run several processes in the background slowing
down the PC or will display numerous ads. These programs can be installed
without your consent (also called adware) or will be included by default
in the express installation kit (ad-supported).
● Scan network shares. To safely access a remote network from your
computer, we recommend you to keep the Scan network shares option
enabled.
● Scan inside archives. Scanning inside archives is a slow and
resource-intensive process, which is therefore not recommended for
real-time protection. Archives containing infected files are not an immediate
threat to the security of your system. The threat can affect your system
only if the infected file is extracted from the archive and executed without
having real-time protection enabled.
If you decide on using this option, turn it on, and then drag the slider along
the scale to set a maximum accepted size limit (in MB) of archives to be
scanned on-access.
● Scan emails. To prevent threats from being downloaded to your computer,
Bitdefender automatically scans incoming and outgoing emails.
Though not recommended, you can disable email threat scan to increase
system performance. If you disable the corresponding scan options, the
emails and files received will not be scanned, thus allowing infected files
to be saved to your computer. This is not a major threat because real-time
protection will block the threat when the infected files are accessed
(opened, moved, copied or executed).
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