Avira User Manual

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
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