New to Antivir, please help

I'm trying Antivir PE classic and have a few questions. I'm running it with the programs in my sig. except of course Avast which I uninstalled. Does the sched.exe need to be running or is it normal to be running when I don't have anything checked as activated in the scheduler? Also, when I look in OA2's firewall status, I see that avguard.exe/TCP is listening at local address *:18350 : remote address *.* Is this also normal or not. Thanks for looking .

I don't use an email program, but didn't see that Avira had that option.

innerpeace

 

The scheduler service is required for the updater, you cannot disable it - or you must manually download the updates. The guard module uses local TCPIP communication, when you block it the tray icon shows a closed umbrella (but the guard still blocks all malware, just without popup).

 

Thank you Stefan for your quick reply. You have put my mind at ease . I received an error while installing and on the first reboot, the umbrella didn't open. I then activated Avira and then rebooted a 2nd time and everything is now fine.

I always update my programs manually, is there any way to stop the process from starting within Antivir? To the best of my knowledge, I had task scheduler set to manual. If not, no big deal. Thanks again

innerpeace

Edit: I also found this about the TCPIP connection if anyone was interested in more details which are over my head.

 

Just uncheck the checkbox on the scheduler page in the GUI to prevent the auto-updating.

 

Thanks Stefan

@ stapp You are right about the popups . I usually disable my security programs before an install, but this time I didn't. I need to ask sometime about the best way to install new software when running OA2. I really like using Sbie and now I know what to expect if Avira would catch something, which I hope it never does. Were you running just Opera in the sandbox at the time?

Thanks, innerpeace

Edit: stapp, I'm also following the post by trjam about sbie.