Settings

Settings section includes those features that allow you to configure Internet connection, create emergency disk, and other settings.
Settings includes the following features:

• Restore Default
• DND Mode
• App Updates
• Self Protection
• Password Protection
• Import/Export Settings

A. Restore Default

This feature allows you to revert the settings customized by you to the default settings. This is very helpful when you change the default settings but you are not satisfied with the protection or you feel your protection is being compromised. You can restore the system default settings.

To restore default settings, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal AntiFraud.
2. On the left pane, navigate to More > Settings and then click Restore Default.
3. On the Restore Default Settings, click Yes to confirm restoring all settings to default.

B. DND Mode

This feature allows you to configure settings to minimize disturbances and work without interruptions:

C. App Updates

This feature helps your device take the updates of the latest virus signatures automatically. It is advisable that you keep your Quick Heal AntiFraud up-to-date for protection against new and unknown malwares and viruses.

To take the updates regularly, ensure the following conditions.

1. You must always keep the App Update turned on.
2. You must set an update mode to take the updates.

Configuring App Updates

To configure App Update, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal AntiFraud.
2. On the left pane, navigate to More > Settings > App Update.
3. Turn App Update on by clicking the toggle button. By default, App Updates is turned on.
4. Select Show notification window for product updates, if you want to get notified about the update of Quick Heal AntiFraud. By default, this option is turned on.
5. Select the update mode from the following options:
   • Automatic download from Internet: Helps you download the updates to your computer from the Internet.
   • Pick update files from specified path: Helps you pick the updates from a local folder or a network folder.
6. Select further options as required.
• Copy downloaded update files to specific location Helps you save a copy of the updates on a local drive of your computer.
• Pick update files from specified path. If you select this option, click Browse and navigate to the folder containing the update files. You will have to manually place the update files in this location so that they can be picked up by Quick Heal application.
7. Select the upgrade mode from the following options:
   • Select option to Check for the latest version of Quick Heal AntiFraud.
     • Notify me when upgrade is available: Select this option if you want to be notified when there is a new upgrade available.
     • Automatically download the upgrade: Select this option if you want a new upgrade when available get downloaded automatically on your system. Then you need to install it to upgrade your current version.
8. To save your settings, click Save.

Selecting Update Mode

Quick Heal AntiFraud provides multiple update modes that you can select according to your convenience.

Pick update files from specified path

Picking the updates is helpful in two ways.

1. Single computer: If your computer where Quick Heal AntiFraud is installed is not connected to the Internet.
2. Multiple computers: You can download the updates on a single computer to save the Internet bandwidth and pick up the updates for all computers in the network.

Note: To save the update at this location, you must keep this option selected.

C. Self Protection

This feature helps you protect Quick Heal AntiFraud so that its files, folders, configurations and registry entries configured against malware are not altered or tampered in any way. It also protects the processes and services of Quick Heal AntiFraud. It is recommended that you always keep Self Protection on. By default, this option is turned on.

Configuring Self Protection

1. Open Quick Heal AntiFraud.
2. On the left pane, navigate to More > Settings > Self Protection.
3. Turn Self Protection on.
   By default, Self Protection is turned on.

D. Password Protection

This feature allows you to restrict unauthorized people from modifying the Quick Heal AntiFraud settings so that your security is not compromised. It is recommended that you always keep Password Protection turned on.

Configuring Password Protection

To configure Password Protection, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal AntiFraud.
2. On the left pane, navigate to More > Settings and then click Password Protection. Turn Password Protection on.
   The Password Protection feature is turned off by default.
3. In Enter password,text box enter a new password if you are setting the password for the first time, and then enter the same password in Confirm password.
   If you are setting the password for the first time, then Enter old password will not be available.
4. To enable safe mode protection, select Enable password protection for Safe mode .
5. Click Save.

Safe Mode Protection

If you run Windows in Safe Mode, your computer starts with only basic files and drivers and the security features of Quick Heal AntiFraud are disabled by default. In such a situation, unauthorized users may take advantage and steal data or modify the settings of the Quick Heal AntiFraud features.

To prevent access to your system by any unauthorized users, you can configure Safe Mode Protection. Once you configure it, you need to provide a password to work in Safe Mode.

E. Import/Export Settings

This feature allows you to import and export the settings of Quick Heal AntiFraud features.

If you need re-installation or have multiple devices and want the same settings, you can simply export the settings configured on your current device and easily import them on the devices.

Both the default settings and the settings made by you can be exported.

Importing and Exporting the Quick Heal AntiFraud Settings

To import or export the Quick Heal AntiFraud settings, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Heal AntiFraud.
2. On the left pane, navigate to More > Settings > Import/Export Settings and then click the Import or Export Settings.
• Import: Helps you import the settings from a .dat file.
  While you import the settings, a caution This will overwrite all settings that you have configured. appears. To confirm importing, click Yes.
• Export: Helps you export the current settings to a .dat file.
3. Upon successful export or import, a message appears. Click OK to close the Import or Export dialogue.

Note:

• The settings of Scheduled Scans and Password Protection cannot be exported or imported.

• If you import settings from a lower version, you might experience some changes in the configured settings. We recommend you restore default settings. Click More > Settings > Restore Default after importing settings from lower versions.