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Table of Contents
1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1
2 Icons and emphases ................................................................................................ 2
3 Product information............................................................................................... 3
3.1 Delivery scope........................................................................................................................3
3.2 System requirements.............................................................................................................4
3.3 Licensing and Upgrade ..........................................................................................................5
4 Installation and uninstallation ............................................................................... 6
4.1 Installation.............................................................................................................................6
4.2 Modification installation ....................................................................................................11
4.3 Installation modules............................................................................................................12
4.4 Uninstallation......................................................................................................................13
5 Overview of Premium Security Suite ..................................................................... 14
5.1 User interface and operation ..............................................................................................14
5.1.1 Control Center .......................................................................................................14
5.1.2 Configuration.........................................................................................................17
5.1.3 Tray icon.................................................................................................................20
5.2 How to...? .............................................................................................................................21
5.2.1 Activate product.....................................................................................................21
5.2.2 Avira Premium Security Suite automatic update .................................................22
5.2.3 Start a manual update............................................................................................23
5.2.4 On-demand scan: Using a scan profile to scan for viruses and malware ............23
5.2.5 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware using Dragamp;Drop ..............25
5.2.6 On-demand scan: Scan for viruses and malware via the context menu..............25
5.2.7 On-demand scan: Automatically scan for viruses and malware ..........................26
5.2.8 On-demand scan: Targeted scan for active rootkits ............................................27
5.2.9 Reacting to detected viruses and malware............................................................27
5.2.10 Quarantine: Handling quarantined files (*.qua)...................................................31
5.2.11 Quarantine: Restore the files in quarantine.........................................................32
5.2.12 Quarantine: move suspicious files to quarantine.................................................34
5.2.13 Scan profile: Amend or delete file type in a scan profile......................................34
5.2.14 Scan profile: Create desktop shortcut for scan profile.........................................34
5.2.15 Events: Filter events ..............................................................................................35
5.2.16 MailGuard: Exclude email addresses from scan ...................................................35
5.2.17 MailGuard: Train the anti-spam module ..............................................................36
5.2.18 Firewall: Select the security level for the Firewall ................................................36
5.2.19 Backup: Create backups manually.........................................................................37
5.2.20 Backup: Create automatic data backups ...............................................................38