Pausing and disabling e-mail protection

E-mail protection is enabled by default. You can pause or disable Mail Anti-Virus completely or for a certain length of time.

To pause Mail Anti-Virus,

select Mail Anti-Virus in the Protection section of the main window and click the status field.

The component status will change to paused. E-mail protection from dangerous objects will be paused until you restart the program or enable the component using the button in the status field.

To stop Mail Anti-Virus,

Click the button in the status field. In this case, the component status will change to disabled. Protection will be disabled until you enable the component using the button in the status field.

The differences between the options listed above for disabling E-mail Anti-Virus consist of the following:

when you pause protection (the

button), the component is not emptied from the memory, and the component statistics for the current Active Virus Shield session are saved and continue to be determined after the component is updated;

when you stop protection (the

button), the component is emptied from the memory, all the statistics from previous work are cleared and when E-mail Anti-Virus is started the statistics start over.

To disable e-mail protection,

Open the Active Virus Shield settings window by clicking Settings in the main program window.

Select

Mail Anti-Virus in the settings tree.

In the right-hand part of the window, uncheck the

Enable Mail Anti-Virus box.

Warning!

Remember that if you disabled E-mail Anti-Virus in the settings window, it will not automatically be enabled after restarting the program. To resume e-mail protection, you must check

Enable Mail Anti-Virus.

By disabling E-mail Anti-Virus in the main window, the component status changes to disabled, and the component list in the Protection section its name will go inactive (gray).

E-mail Anti-Virus can also be disabled by fully disabling protection on your computer.