Reference: Configuration options
Avira Antivirus Premium - User Manual (Status: 23 Sep. 2011)
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Delete
The button deletes a selected entry from the list. This button is inactive if no entry is
selected.
Examples: Skipped URLs
www.avira.com
-OR-
www.avira.com/*
= All URLs with the domain
www.avira.com
are excluded from Web Protection
scans:
www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php
,
www.avira.com/en/support/index.html
,
www.avira.com/en/download/index.html
, etc.
URLs with the domain
www.avira.de
are not excluded from Web Protection scans.
avira.com
-OR-
*.avira.com
= All URLs with the second and top-level domain
avira.com
are excluded from
Web Protection scans: The specification implies all existing subdomains for
.avira.com
:
www.avira.com
,
forum.avira.com
, etc.
avira.
-OR-
*.avira.*
= All URLs with the second-level domain
avira
are excluded from Web Protection
scans: The specification implies all existing top-level domains or subdomains for
.avira
:
www.avira.com
,
www.avira.de
,
forum.avira.com
, etc.
.*domain*.*
All URLs containing a second-level domain with the string
domain
are excluded from
Web Protection scans:
www.domain.com
,
www.new-domain.de
,
www.sample-
domain1.de
, ...
net
-OR-
*.net
= All URLs with the top-level domain
net
are excluded from Web Protection scans:
www.name1.net
,
www.name2.net
, etc.
Warning
Enter the URLs you want to exclude from the Web Protection scan as precisely
as possible. Avoid specifying an entire top-level domain or parts of a second-
level domain because there is a risk that Internet pages that distribute malware
and undesirable programs will be excluded from the Web Protection scan
through global specifications under exclusions. You are recommended to
specify at least the complete second-level domain and the top-level domain:
domainname.com
Heuristic
This configuration section contains the settings for the heuristic of the scan
engine. (Options available in expert mode only.)
Avira products contain very powerful heuristics that can proactively uncover unknown
malware, i.e. before a special virus signature to combat the damaging element has been
created and before a virus guard update has been sent. Virus detection involves an
extensive analysis and investigation of the affected codes for functions typical of malware.
If the code being scanned exhibits these characteristic features, it is reported as being
