Protection

Acronis True Image provides the following types of 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.

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

The Protection dashboard

The Protection dashboard contains statistical data, provides control over the protection status, and access to the protection setting.

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

On the Overview tab of the dashboard, you can:

  • View statistics about the active protection status.
  • View the number of detected issues and quarantined items.
  • View the latest report of the Antivirus scan.
  • View the next scheduled scan time.
  • Manually run full Antivirus scan. To do this, click Run full 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.

    By pausing the protection, 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.