Avira antivir personal-free antivirus User Manual
Avira AntiVir Personal
In Microsoft Windows Vista, the control center at the moment only has limited
rights, e.g. for access to directories and files. Certain actions and file accesses can
only be carried out in the control centre with extended administrator rights. These
extended administrator rights must be granted at the start of each scan via a scan
profile.
rights, e.g. for access to directories and files. Certain actions and file accesses can
only be carried out in the control centre with extended administrator rights. These
extended administrator rights must be granted at the start of each scan via a scan
profile.
This icon starts a limited scan via a scan profile. Only directories and files that
Windows Vista has granted access rights to are scanned.
This icon starts the scan with extended administrator rights. After
confirmation, all directories and files in the selected scan profile are scanned.
To scan for viruses and malware with a scan profile:
Go to Control Center and select the section Local protection :: Scan.
Go to Control Center and select the section Local protection :: Scan.
Predefined scan profiles appear.
Select one of the predefined scan profiles.
-OR-
Adapt the scan profile Manual selection.
Click on the icon (Windows XP:
or Windows Vista:
).
The Luke Filewalker window appears and an on-demand scan is started.
When the scan is completed, the results are displayed.
If you want to adapt a scan profile:
In the scan profile, expand Manual Selection the file tree so that all the drives you
In the scan profile, expand Manual Selection the file tree so that all the drives you
want to scan are open:
Highlight the nodes you want to scan by clicking on the box:
5.2.4 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware using
Dragamp;Drop
To scan for viruses and malware systematically using Drag&Drop:
The Avira AntiVir Personal Control Center has been opened.
Highlight the file
Use the left-hand mouse button to drag the highlighted file into the Control Center.
Use the left-hand mouse button to drag the highlighted file into the Control Center.
The
Luke Filewalker window appears and an on-demand scan is started.
When the scan is completed, the results are displayed.
5.2.5 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware via the context
menu
To scan for viruses and malware systematically via the context menu:
Click with the right-hand mouse button (e.g. in Windows Explorer, on the desktop or
Click with the right-hand mouse button (e.g. in Windows Explorer, on the desktop or
in an open Windows directory) on the file
The Windows Explorer context menu appears.
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