Avira antivir personal 10 User Manual

Overview of AntiVir Personal 

Configuration of email using SMTP  

Extended risk categories for on-demand and on-access scan 

Security: Update status display, full system scan status display, product protection 

WMI: Enable WMI support 

Event log configuration 

Configuration of report functions 

Setting of directories used 

Update:  Configuration of connection to download server, set-up of product updates 

Configuration of acoustic alerts when malware is detected 

 

5.1.3  Tray icon 

After installation, you will see the AntiVir Personal tray icon in the system tray of the 
taskbar: 

 

AntiVir Guard is enabled 

 

AntiVir Guard is disabled 

The tray icon displays the status of the AntiVir Guard service. 

Central functions of Avira AntiVir Personal can be quickly accessed via the context menu 
of the tray icon. To open the context menu, click on the tray icon with the right-hand 
mouse button. 

Entries in the context menu 

–  Activate AntiVir Guard: Enables or disables Avira AntiVir Guard. 
–  Start AntiVir: Opens the Avira AntiVir Personal Control Center. 
–  Configure AntiVir: Opens the Configuration 
–  Start update Starts an update. 
–  Help: opens this online help. 
–  Avira on the Internet: Opens the web portal of AntiVir Personal on the 

internet. The condition for this is that you have an active connection to the 
Internet. 

5.2  How to...? 

5.2.1  Avira AntiVir Personal automatic update 

To create a job with the AntiVir Scheduler to update Avira AntiVir Personal 
automatically: 
  In the Control Center, select the Management :: Scheduler section. 

  Click on the 

 Create new job with the wizard icon. 

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