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Heuristic<br />
Reference: Configuration options<br />
Warning<br />
Enter the URLs you want to exclude from the Web Protection scan as precisely<br />
as possible. Avoid specifying an entire top-level domain or parts of a secondlevel<br />
domain because there is a risk that Internet pages that distribute malware<br />
and undesirable programs will be excluded from the Web Protection scan<br />
through global specifications under exclusions. You are recommended to<br />
specify at least the complete second-level domain and the top-level domain:<br />
domainname.com<br />
This configuration section contains the settings for the heuristic of the scan<br />
engine. (Options available in expert mode only.)<br />
Avira products contain very powerful heuristics that can proactively uncover unknown<br />
malware, i.e. before a special virus signature to combat the damaging element has been<br />
created and before a virus guard update has been sent. Virus detection involves an<br />
extensive analysis and investigation of the affected codes for functions typical of malware.<br />
If the code being scanned exhibits these characteristic features, it is reported as being<br />
suspicious. This does not necessarily mean that the code is in fact malware. False<br />
positives do sometimes occur. The decision on how to handle affected code is to be made<br />
by the user, e.g. based on his or her knowledge of whether the source of the code is<br />
trustworthy or not.<br />
Macrovirus heuristic<br />
Your Avira product contains a highly powerful macrovirus heuristic. If this option is<br />
enabled, all macros in the relevant document are deleted in the event of a repair,<br />
alternatively suspect documents are only reported, i.e. you receive an alert. This<br />
option is enabled as the default setting and is recommended.<br />
Advanced Heuristic Analysis and Detection (AHeAD)<br />
enable AHeAD<br />
Your Avira program contains a very powerful heuristic in the form of Avira AHeAD<br />
technology, which can also detect unknown (new) malware. If this option is enabled,<br />
you can define how "aggressive" this heuristic should be. This option is enabled as the<br />
default setting.<br />
Low detection level<br />
If this option is enabled, slightly less unknown malware is detected, the risk of false<br />
alerts is low in this case.<br />
Medium detection level<br />
This option is enabled as the default setting if you have selected the use of this<br />
heuristic.<br />
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