Symantec 10067161 - 10PK NORTON ANTIVIRUS Product Manual page 146

146 Protecting your files and data
About the Norton AntiVirus scans
About Real Time Exclusions
2 In the Settings window, in the left pane, click Real
Time Protection.
3 In the SONAR Protection row, do one of the
following:
To turn off SONAR Protection, move the On/Off
1
switch to the right to the Off position.
To turn on SONAR Protection, move the On/Off
1
switch to the left to the On position.
4 In the Settings window, click Apply.
Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response
(SONAR) provides real-time protection against threats
and proactively detects unknown security risks on your
computer. SONAR identifies emerging threats based
on the behavior of applications. SONAR identifies
threats quickly compared to the traditional
signature-based threat detection techniques. SONAR
detects and protects you from malicious programs even
before virus definitions are available through
LiveUpdate.
SONAR monitors your computer for malicious activities
using heuristic detections. It automatically blocks and
removes high-certainty threats. Norton AntiVirus
notifies you when high-certainty threats are detected
and removed.
However, you can configure Norton AntiVirus to
exclude certain programs from the Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect scans and SONAR scans. You should
exclude programs only if you are confident that they
are not infected. You can exclude the programs from
the Auto-Protect scans and SONAR scans by adding
them to the Real Time Exclusions window. When you
add a program to the Real Time Exclusions window,
Norton AntiVirus ignores the file when it performs
Auto-Protect scan and SONAR scan. This option also
excludes subfolders within a folder.