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Scan potentially dangerous files only The most endangered parts of your system will be scanned. Default value is Scan all files. 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. Regardless of whether you want the detections to be treated automatically or separately, also select a procedure from the Default action menu. Choose an action for the infected item: Delete or Move files to quarantine or Ignore until next VDF 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 does not scan archives with the on-access Real-Time Protection 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 compressed to save disk space. Therefore they are perfect virus hideouts and infection hubs. If you turn on the scan archives option, 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 search in archives is turned Off. You may turn on the scanning of archives, by choosing Scan archives. Preferences Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 44
7.6.2 Detection Preferences If the continuously monitoring Real-Time Protection scanner detects malware of any kind, the Real-Time Protection results window opens. The message Security Risk Detected is displayed and the following detailed information is listed: • Number of Detected Viruses: The total number of detected viruses • Date / Time: The day and the exact time of the detection To select one of the two available actions on detection, click the appropriate radio button. The default value is "Move files to quarantine". Note If you want to select a different action than the default one, you have to be logged in with an administrator account. Click OK to assume your selection. If you have chosen a different action than the default one, the infected item is scanned again and treated the way you have selected. If you did not choose any action for infected items, the pane of the Status tab in the Status window shows that Detected viruses have not been treated yet. Click the link Treat Now for further action. The infected item will be moved to quarantine automatically. 7.7 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 and the scan for macro viruses are turned on and the detection level is set to Medium. Avira Mac Security - User Manual (Status: 29. 05. 2012) 45
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