Protection

Acronis True Image provides the following protection for your data:

  • 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.

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

If you have a license covering Active Protection, but the corresponding component was not installed, you can add it. For more information, refer to Configuring Active Protection.

If you have a license covering Real-time Protection, Antivirus scan, Videoconference protection, and Web filtering, but the corresponding component was not installed, you can add it. For more information, refer to Configuring Active Protection.

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 settings.

To access the Protection dashboard, click Protection in the Acronis True Image side bar.

On the Overview tab of the dashboard, you can:

  • Install missing protection components. To do this, click Install and follow the instructions displayed.
  • View statistics about the active protection status.
  • View the number of detected issues, quarantined items, and protection exclusions.
  • View the latest report of the Antivirus scan. To view this, click Scan report.
  • 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. To view this, click Detected vulnerabilities.

  • 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.

    By turning the protection off, you deactivate Active Protection. 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.