User Guide

Avira AntiVir Personal

If you have enabled the Short system scan option, the Luke Filewalker window

opens. The Scanner performs a short system scan.

Resume: Express installation und user-defined installation

If you selected the Restart computer option in the final installation wizard, the

computer reboots.

After the computer restart, the AntiVir Personal Readme file is displayed, if you

selected the Show Readme.txt option in the installation wizard.

After a successful installation, we recommend that you check AntiVir Personal is up-to-

date in the Control Center under Overview :: Status.

 Where appropriate, update AntiVir Personal to ensure the virus definition file is up-

to-date.

 Then perform a full system scan.

4.2 Modification installation

You have the option of adding or removing individual program components of the

current Avira AntiVir Personal installation (see ChapterInstallation and

uninstallation::Installation modules)

If you wish to add or remove modules of the actual Avira AntiVir Personal installation,

you can use the option Add or Remove Programs in the Windows control panel to

Change/Remove programs.

Select Avira AntiVir Personal and click Change. In the welcome dialog of Avira AntiVir

Personal select the option Modify. You will be guided through the installation changes.

4.3 Installation modules

In a user-defined installation or a modification installation, the following installation

modules can be selected, added or removed.

– AntiVir Personal

This module contains all components required for successful installation of Avira

AntiVir Personal.

– AntiVir Guard

The AntiVir Guard runs in the background. It monitors and repairs, if possible,

files during operations such as open, write and copy in on-access mode.

Whenever a user carries out a file operation (e.g. load document, execute, copy),

Avira AntiVir Personal automatically scans the file. Renaming a file does not

trigger a scan by AntiVir Guard.

– AntiVir Rootkit Protection

AntiVir Rootkit Protection checks whether software is already installed on your

computer that can no longer be detected with conventional methods of malware

protection after penetrating the computer system.