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authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users,
such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts
)
·
Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats
- (
on by
default
): check to activate the
Anti-Spyware
engine, and scan for spyware
as well as for viruses.
Spyware
represents a questionable malware category:
even though it usually represents a security risk, some of these programs can
be installed intentionally. We recommend to keep this feature activated as it
increases your computer security.
·
Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs
(
off by default
) -
mark to detect extended package of
spyware
: programs that are perfectly ok
and harmless when acquired from the manufacturer directly, but can be
misused for malicious purposes later. This is an additional measure that
increases your computer security even more, however it can possibly block
legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.
·
Scan files on close
(
off by default
) - on-close scanning ensures that AVG
scans active objects (e.g. applications, documents …) when they are being
opened, and also when they are being closed; this feature helps you protect
your computer against some types of sophisticated virus
·
Scan boot sector of removable media
(
on by default
)
·
Use Heuristics
- (
on by default
)
heuristic analysis
will be used for detection (
dynamic emulation of the scanned object’s instructions in a virtual computer
environment
)
·
Auto-heal
(
off by default
) - any detected infection will be healed
automatically if there is a cure available, and all infection that cannot be cured
will be removed.
·
Scan files referred in registry
(
on by default
) - this parameter defines that
AVG will scan all executable files added to startup registry to avoid a known
infection being executed upon next computer startup.
·
Enable thorough scanning
(
off by default
) - in specific situations (
in a state
of extreme emergency
) you may check this option to activate the most
thorough algorithms that will check all possibly threatening objects into the
deep. Remember though that this method is rather time consuming.
