Avira setup

People,

I've download AVIRA 90 day trial but it seemed to have few options to setup. Actually, I could just enable/disable archive support but not heuristics level and so on. Is it really this way or was it just me?

TIA,
Scirious.

 

There should be an 'advanced configuration' , ('Expert' or something similar) selection
on the upper right corner of the main GUI.

 

Menu "Extras" > Configuration

... or right-click Tray Icon > "Configure Antivir"

 

Hi,

Yes you need to check "Export Mode" to have many more choices (including heuristic level)

MaB

 

Right click the umbrella in your taskbar, Configure Antivir, Upper right corner:

 

I'm wondering what other users who use 'automatic' under 'actions for concerning files' on the scanner and guard have their primary and secondary actions set to?

I have 'Repair' for primary and 'delete' for secondary and 'copy file to quarantine before action' for both scan and guard.

Is this a good plan?

 

That is the same I'm using. Also with heuristics at max.

 

I'm just wondering how does it know what to repair the file back to, does Avira do some kind of file/registry backup like Avast's VDRB?

 

Avira support has said repeatedly that you should not change it from interactive which is the default setting for a reason! Put it back to default. You are asking for trouble if you have it any other way. I learned this the hard way with NOD32 years ago.

 

just set eveything to delete or quarantine, i really would not trust avira to clean an infection.

 

WithAvira's high number of FP's you tell someone to delete? That's nuts! ANY detection from Avira should go to quarantine and be submitted to Avira.

NEVER EVER set any AV to delete. That is a recipe for disaster.

Avira WISELY states NEVER set it to anything other than interactive.

 

or if you must, quarintine!

 

It might be worth noting that, despite Avira's track record for FPs, they have yet to slaughter any critical Windows system files, or programs that are necessary for internet access...

 

Isn't there a risk that whilst you are deliberating over which option to select from the interactive menu the virus is trashing your PC?

 

No.

No such nonsense happens. The virus is blocked from executing at all if Avira can detect it.

 

OK, but, say you get a false positive with the cleaning set to 'interactive', the menu comes up and you click 'delete', you would then have deleted a valuable file without having a backup in quarantine.

Wouldn't it be safer to have the automatic option set to 'copy file to quarantine before action' with primary action 'repair' and secondary 'delete'.

That way whatever happens you have a backup of any deleted files and can easily restore them if necessary?

 

Hate to point out the obvious, but ever noticed that there's a quarantine option on the prompt window as well?

 

Yes I have thanks, but the point I'm making is that the interactive window gives you an option of 'delete' without backing the file up with which you could accidentally cause serious damage to your PC if it's an FP so I'm not sure how that makes it safer than having it set to automatically quarantine.

 

I give up.

Tell me which is safer, having the option to not do anything to an FP, or have it quarantined automatically without giving you a chance to do anything?

That's what happened to Symantec, btw. Quarantined a critical system file, gg.