By default, Active Virus Shield boots at startup and protects your computer the entire time you are using it. The logo in the upper right corner of your screen lets you know this. All protection components are running.

You can disable, fully or partially, the protection provided by Active Virus Shield.

Note that in this case protection is discussed in the context of the protection components. Disabling or pausing protection components does not effect the performance of virus search tasks and program updates.

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