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Real-time protection settings
Use right mouse click on taskbar icon to open up the guards settings (see pict.). The settings dialogue enables you to define which elements and processes of Ashampoo Anti-Malware should be guarded. Please be aware that these settings are for advanced users only! Your system may suffer from insufficient protection if e.g. only view file formats or processes are being guarded. In contrast, your system may experience performance issues if protection is too tight. The program’s standard settings have been developed and tested with great care, which is why they usually don’t need to be changed.
File formats
Choose the file formats that should be protected by Ashampoo Anti-Malware. All security relevant file formats are already preset and may be activated by checking the adjacent checkbox. It is also possible to add user-defined file formats. You can simply add the respective file extension under “custom file formats” (e.g. avi for a specific multimedia container format) after activating said option via mouse click.
Monitoring
Monitoring write access When granting yourself write access (e.g. when writing a word document) it is unlikely for viruses to infect your system, which is why user write access is deactivated by default. Should you desire maximum protection in within this area (e.g. because you suspect the program in use to be infected), just check the adjacent checkbox.
Monitoring network traffic Use this option to scan and monitor all network traffic on your local area network and from/to the internet. Suspicious events will be highlighted and blocked on demand.
Archive files An archive file is a compressed file that is composed of several files along with metadata. Compressed files have extensions like .rar, .zip, .tar and even .cab (installation file). Of course these archives also contain security relevant files, even when they are not active due to the compressed format. This is why it is highly recommend to also check those archives for infections. Big archives (e.g. OS images) can easily contain several gigabyte of data which is why a regular guard protection could use up too much system resources. Therefore the standard protection settings include a size limitation for monitoring archive files that can also be set individually.
Rules
Similar to the whitelist you can define rules as to how the guard should behave towards certain applications. In contrast to the whitelist, those rules do not define which files are being ignored (or classified as infections) by the guard, but rather how the guard behaves towards a certain application, meaning which applications are being approved or blocked. These rules apply to e.g. autostart entries or BHOs (Browser Helper Objects). When the guard is active and you approve/block a certain application, you can find it here and are able to edit and remove the entry.
Whitelist
The whitelist enables you to exclude certain files, folders and drives from the scan process thereby speeding up the scan process significantly. Unlike the file filter, that excludes certain file formats from the scan process, the whitelist enables you to exclude certain folders or drives (i.e. the file location) from the scan process. Even applications that were being identified as risk events by Ashampoo Anti-Malware can be added to the whitelist as an exception, should you wish to continue using them. Nonetheless it is highly recommended to reassure yourself about the current risk status of the desired application by consulting the internet first. Viruses and spyware often enough disguise themselves as common applications in order to stay under the radar.
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