Antivirus and antimalware protection

Acronis True Image 2021 provides three types of antivirus and antimalware protection.

• Active Protection runs constantly in the background to protect your machines in real time while you work as usual.
• Antivirus scans run on-demand to perform in-depth search for malicious software throughout the whole system.
• Vulnerability assessment is a daily scan that runs in the background, detects vulnerabilities in your system and apps, and then assesses their severity.

Note  You can turn the protection on or off in the True Image UI only. You cannot stop the process manually through Task Manager or any other external tool.

The Protection dashboard

The Protection dashboard contains statistical data on the Active protection, Antivirus scan, and Vulnerability assessment processes, provides control over the protection status, and access to the protection setting.

To access the Protection dashboard, click Protection on the Acronis True Image 2021 sidebar.

On the Overview tab of the dashboard, you can:

• View statistics about the active protection status.
• View the number of detected issues, quarantined, and excluded items.
• View the latest report of the Antivirus scan.
• View the next scheduled scan time.
• Manually run full or quick Antivirus scan. To do this, click Run full scan or Run quick scan.
• View the latest report of the detected vulnerabilities, and run a new scan from it.
• Stop the entire protection for a predefined period of time (30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, until restart). To do this, click Turn off protection and choose the period.

  Note  By turning the protection off, you deactivate Active Protection (Real-time protection, Antiransomware protection, Vulnerability assessment, and Web filtering). Scheduled on-demand scans will not start.

On the Activity tab of the dashboard, you can view a log of the changes that you applied to your protection status and settings.