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5. Advanced user
5.1 Profile manager
Profile manager is used in two places within ESET NOD32 Antivirus – in the Computer scan section and in the Update
section.
Computer scan
Your preferred scan parameters can be saved for future scanning. We recommend that you create a different profile
(with various scan targets, scan methods and other parameters) for each regularly used scan.
To create a new profile, open the Advanced setup window (F5) and click Computer > Antivirus and antispyware >
Computer scan > Profiles.... The Configuration profiles window includes the Selected profile drop-down menu that
lists existing scan profiles and the option to create a new one. To help you create a scan profile to fit your needs, see
the ThreatSense engine parameters setup section for a description of each parameter of the scan setup.
Example: Suppose that you want to create your own scan profile and the Smart scan configuration is partially suitable,
but you don’t want to scan runtime packers or potentially unsafe applications and you also want to apply Strict
cleaning. In the Configuration profiles window, click the Add... button. Enter the name of your new profile in the
Profile name field and select Smart scan from the Copy settings from profile drop-down menu. Then, adjust the
remaining parameters to meet your requirements.
Update
The profile editor in the Update setup section allows users to create new update profiles. Create and use your own
custom profiles (i.e. other than the default My profile) only if your computer uses multiple ways of connecting to
update servers.
An example is a laptop which normally connects to a local server – Mirror – in the local network, but downloads
updates directly from ESET’s update servers when disconnected from the local network (business trip). In this scenario,
it is suitable to create two profiles: the first one connecting to the local server; the other one to ESET’s servers. Then,
navigate to Tools > Scheduler and edit the update task parameters. Designate one profile as primary and the other as
secondary.
Selected profile – The currently used update profile. To change it, choose a profile from the drop-down menu.
Add... – Create new update profiles.
The bottom part of the window lists existing profiles.
5.2 Keyboard shortcuts
Key shortcuts that can be used when working with the ESET NOD32 Antivirus include:
Ctrl+G
disables GUI in the product
Ctrl+I
opens the ESET SysInspector page
Ctrl+L
opens the Log files page
Ctrl+S
opens the Scheduler page
Ctrl+Q
opens the Quarantine page
Ctrl+U
opens a Username and Password setup
Ctrl+R
resets window to its default size and position on the screen
For better navigation in the ESET security product, the following keyboard shortcuts can be used:
F1
opens help pages
F5
opens Advanced setup
Up/Down
navigation in product through items
*
expands Advanced setup tree node
-
collapses Advanced setup tree nodes
TAB
moves the cursor in a window
Esc
closes the active dialog window