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7.3.1 Basic Settings You may choose what kind of files will be scanned on demand by the virus scanner and which action shall be taken for detected viruses. Detection Range Scan all files All files and folders of your system will be scanned for malware. Scan potentially dangerous files only The most endangered parts of your system will be scanned. Default value is Scan potentially dangerous files only. Action on Detection Treat each detection separately You will be informed about each detection and you have to choose an action on detection. Treat each detection automatically Each infected item will be treated automatically. Default value is Treat each detection automatically. If you keep the default setting, the default action if a virus is found is Move files to quarantine. Select the kind of file to be scanned from the Detection Range section. Select an action from the Action on Detection section. If you want the detections to be treated automatically, also select a procedure from the Default action menu. Preferences Choose an action for the infected item: Delete, Move files to quarantine or Ignore until next update. To save your settings and to close the dialog, click OK and type your password to allow Avira to save your customized settings. To close the preferences window without keeping your settings, click Cancel. Archive Handling • By default Avira Mac Security scans archives with the on-demand virus scanner. Archives are containers for files such as documents, pictures or executable files. Archives can have simple but also very complex structures. Very often those archived files are also Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 40
Preferences compressed to save disk space. Therefore, they are perfect virus hideouts and infection hubs. Those compressed files are scanned, decompressed and scanned again. Please note that archives can be quite large sometimes and scanning them for viruses may take a long time. • By default the scan of archives is turned On. • Scan archives You may turn off the scanning of archives by choosing Do not scan archives. 7.4 Heuristic Detection Avira Mac Security contains a highly powerful heuristic and macro virus heuristic that can proactively detect unknown malware and new viruses. It enhances the so called signature based detection which looks for known viruses. Macro viruses are small programs that are written in the macro language of an application (for example WordBasic under WinWord 6.0) and that can normally spread within documents of this application. For this reason, they are also called document viruses, you may receive per email. In order to be active, they need that the corresponding applications are activated and that one of the infected macros has been executed. Scan for macro viruses You may turn off the scan for macro viruses. Use heuristic detection to find new viruses You may turn off the heuristic detection to find new viruses. Heuristic Detection Level By default, the search with heuristic technique is turned on and the detection level is set to Medium. You may change the detection level by moving the slider control. � Low: Weakest detection level with a low risk that clean files will be detected as infected. � Medium: Strong detection level with a low risk that clean files will be detected as infected. � High: Strongest detection level with a higher risk that clean files will be detected as infected. 7.5 Threat Categories Avira Mac Security not only searches for all kinds of viruses but protects your Mac against various other threats, such as dangerous or unwanted applications. If you are not sure what kind of threats you want Avira Mac Security to scan for, keep the default values. Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 41
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