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7. Preferences 7.1 Preferences Overview Preferences Your Avira Mac Security monitors constantly the security status of your Mac. If there are any risks for your Mac, the Status window of the event center displays the lack of protection and the Avira logo in the Dock shows a yellow warning symbol. You may fix those risks with just one click: Secure My Mac Now. In addition to the automatically monitored security risks, you may adjust further settings for security risks in the Preferences window. In order to trigger extra alerts, you must log in as an administrator to tune the configuration settings. To open the Preferences window, choose Menu bar > Avira > Preferences or Control-click the Avira logo in the Dock while the application is running and select Open Preferences. Note If your Mac is managed by the Avira Management Console, Preferences are disabled and a tooltip indicates it is an AMC-managed environment. The toolbar of the main Preferences window contains three configuration buttons: • General: In addition to automatically monitored risks you can adjust some general vulnerabilities as risks that cause alerts. • Virus Scan: Specifies the scanning procedure of the on-demand scanner. • Real-Time Protection: Specifies the scanning procedure of the on-access scanner. The General window has two tabs: • Basic Settings: Specifies the basics settings that cause alert messages in the main Status window of the event center. • Logging: Specifies how long events are logged in the database. By default the General configuration category is opened with the Basic Settings tab. To switch between the different dialogs of preferences, click the configuration buttons of the toolbar of the Preferences window. All configuration dialogs provide a Restore Defaults button, in order to make it easy for you to go back to the default configuration of the dialog in question. To reset all settings to their previous values and to close the configuration dialog, click Cancel. To save your settings and to close the configuration dialog, click OK. Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 38
7.2 General To tune the settings of your Avira Mac Security, choose Avira > Preferences. The General Preferences window opens. It provides two configuration dialogs on two tabs: 7.2.1 Basic Settings You may turn on the information about the following security risks that will trigger extra alerts in the main Status window of the event center: • Last successful update older than ... • Scheduled updates turned off • Untreated viruses Select one or more security risk(s) to be informed about. If you select Last successful update older than ...for additional security risks information, also choose a period of time from the days and the hours menu. To save your settings and to close the dialog, click OK. To allow Avira to save the changes you made, type your password. 7.2.2 Logging Preferences Your Avira Mac Security logs information about security relevant events. In the pane of the Logging tab you define when the database should be cleaned up, because with time the amount of events increases and may slow down the performance of your Mac. Select, after what period of time logs should be deleted. Choose a period of time from the months menu: • Automatically delete events older than 3, 6, 9 or 12 months. The default value is set to 6 months. 7.3 Virus Scan The Virus Scan window of the Preferences has three tabs for customizing the settings of the on-demand system scanner. Choose Menu bar > Avira > Preferences and click the Virus Scan button in the toolbar of the Preferences window. • Basic Settings • Heuristic Detection • Threat Categories Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 39
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