User manual AVIRA PREMIUM SECURITY SUITE 10

[. . . ] Avira Premium Security Suite User Manual Trademarks and Copyright Trademarks AntiVir is a registered trademark of Avira GmbH. Windows is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. This does not mean, however that they may be used freely. Copyright information Code provided by third party providers was used for Avira Premium Security Suite. [. . . ] With the stolen access details, the phishers can assume the identities of the victims and carry out transactions in their name. What is clear is that: banks and insurance companies never ask for credit card numbers, PINs, TANs or other access details by email, SMS or telephone. They change their own programming codes - and are therefore very hard to detect. Program viruses A computer virus is a program that is capable of attaching itself to other programs after being executed and cause an infection. In contrast to a worm, a virus always requires a program as host, where the virus deposits its virulent code. Rootkit A rootkit is a collection of software tools that are installed after a computer system has been infiltrated to conceal logins of the infiltrator, hide processes and record data generally speaking: to make themselves invisible. They attempt to update already installed spy programs and reinstall deleted spyware. Script viruses and worms 60 Viruses and more Such viruses are extremely easy to program and they can spread - if the required technology is on hand - within a few hours via email round the globe. Script viruses and worms use one of the script languages, such as Javascript, VBScript etc. , to insert themselves in other, new scripts or to spread themselves by calling operating system functions. This frequently happens via email or through the exchange of files (documents). A worm is a program that multiplies itself but that does not infect the host. Worms are often the only possibility to infiltrate any kind of damaging programs on systems with restrictive security measures. Spyware Spyware are so called spy programs that intercept or take partial control of a computer's operation without the user's informed consent. Spyware is designed to exploit infected computers for commercial gain. Trojans include programs that pretend to have a particular function, but that show their real image after execution and carry out a different function that, in most cases, is destructive. Trojan horses cannot multiply themselves, which differentiates them from viruses and worms. Most of them have an interesting name (SEX. EXE or STARTME. EXE) with the intention to induce the user to start the Trojan. Immediately after execution they become active and can, for example, format the hard disk. A dropper is a special form of Trojan that 'drops' viruses, i. e. Zombie A zombie PC is a computer that is infected with malware programs and that enables hackers to abuse computers via remote control for criminal purposes. On command, the affected PC starts denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, for example, or sends spam and phishing emails. 61 12 Info and Service This chapter contains information on how to contact us. see Chapter Contact address see Chapter Technical support see Chapter Suspicious files see Chapter Report false positives see Chapter Your feedback for more security 12. 1 Contact address If you have any questions or requests concerning the AntiVir product range, we will be pleased to help you. [. . . ] Note You can see where your system saves temporary files - for example with Windows XP under: Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Index card "Advanced"/Button "Environment Variables". The temporary variables (TEMP, TMP) for the currently registered user and for system variables (TEMP, TMP) are shown here with their relevant values. Use following directory If this option is enabled, the path displayed in the input box is used. The button opens a window in which you can select the required temporary path. Default The button restores the pre-defined directory for the temporary path. 128 Reference: Configuration options 13. 9. 7 Events Limit size of event database Limit maximum number of events to n entries If this option is enabled, the maximum number of events listed in the event database can be limited to a certain size; possible values: 100 to 10000 entries. If the number of entered entries is exceeded, the oldest entries are deleted. Delete events older than n day(s) If this option is enabled, events listed in the event database are deleted after a certain period of time; possible values: 1 to 90 days. [. . . ]