Configuration: password

This section allows the user to protect the access to specific sections of the antivirus by means of a password. This guarantees that those sections will not be altered by anyone without permission.

Items to be protected

Shows the different sections of the antivirus that will be protected by a particular password.

Resident: by protecting this section, unauthorized changes to the configuration or even the disabling of the resident protection can be avoided.

Scheduled: with the protection offered by this section, unauthorized manipulation of scheduled scans can be avoided.

Startup: startup scan protection avoids the making of any changes to the configuration or the disabling of this scan.

Updates: access to this part of the antivirus can be blocked so that nobody alters necessary data inputs for updating.

General options: by preventing access to general options, unauthorized access to the general antivirus configuration and thus changing of the password can be prevented.

Internet: by protecting this section, unauthorized changing of the configuration or even the disabling of the permanent protection against data received from Internet can be prevented (Differences between versions).

Password

Allows the user to type in a password in order to protect those items that have been selected. A previously indicated password can also be changed.

Password: a password chosen to protect the access to certain parts of the antivirus must be inserted here.

Change password: to change a password already introduced, select this option.