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Note that in this case protection is discussed in the context of the protection
components. Disabling or pausing protection components does not affect the
performance of virus scan tasks or program updates.
6.1.1.
Pausing protection
Pausing real-time protection means temporarily disabling all the protection com-
ponents that monitor the files on your computer, incoming and outgoing email,
executable scripts and application behavior.
To pause a computer real-time protection:
1. Select
Pause protection
in the program‟s context menu (see 4.2 on
pg. 40).
2. In the
Pause protection
window that opens (see Figure 5), select how
soon you want protection to resume:
In <time interval>
– protection will be enabled this amount of time
later. To select a time value, use the drop-down menu.
At next program restart
– protection will resume if you open the
program from the
Start
Menu or after you restart your computer
(provided the program is set to start automatically on startup (see
15.11 on pg. 192).
By user request only
– protection will stop until you start it yourself.
To enable protection, select
Resume protection
from the pro-
gram‟s context menu.
If you pause protection, all real-time protection components will be paused. This
is indicated by:
Inactive (gray) names of the disabled components in the
Protection
section of the main window.
Inactive (gray) icon in the taskbar notification area.
