IKARUS anti.virus protects your devices and data from both previously known and newly emerging malware – without any negative effect on the performance of your machine. All files and archives on your computer are evaluated, executed, simulated and monitored in a multi-layer process. Behavioural analysis also identifies malware by its malicious and unwanted behaviour or harmful characteristics. Once discovered, an intruder is immediately isolated and rendered harmless.
You can find the standard symbol at the bottom right of your screen in the taskbar.*
Double-click on the symbol and the configuration screen for IKARUS anti.virus opens automatically. When moving the cursor over the symbol, the pop-up shown below will appear for a few seconds on your screen.
You can also open IKARUS anti.virus here too. Simply click the required function (Scan, Update or Guard). This provides you with all the information on wether IKARUS anti.virusis running properly, when the last update was performed, when the last scan took place and wether all components of the virus protection are activated. If all three fields are white, everything is working OK.*
When this window appears, you can see which area is affected by the warning. In the example, one component of the guard is disabled, i.e. part of the scanning function is disabled.*
The white cross set to a red background indicates that everything is OK, the virus protection is set to its highest level and the software is fully updated. IKARUS anti.virus is on and monitoring your PC.
When the symbol pulsates in size (like a heartbeat), this indicates that IKARUS anti.virus is currently being updated.
This symbol indicates that one of the three components (Scan, Update or Guard) is not set to the highest security level available in IKARUS anti.virus.
A rotating symbol shows that a scan is currently being performed.
If the symbol for IKARUS anti.virus appears like this, a virus has been found. In this case, follow the instructions unter 3.4 Quarantine.
Guard is the monitoring component in IKARUS anti.virus. To achieve the highest level of protection against malicious software, tick all of the available checkboxes. If required, you can reduce the level of protection by unchecking one or more checkboxes.
ATTENTION: IKARUS anti.virus only offers full virus protection when all options are selected and enabled!
Figure 16: Guard
Figure 17: Guard – partly activated
You will also see a yellow symbol and the message “Your system is partly safe configured.” appears. IKARUS anti.virus is then no longer able to provide you full protection.
Figure 18: Guard not activated
If the Symbol turns to red your system protection is turned off and the status message is “Warning! Your system configuration is not safe.”.
If one or more areas are excluded from the scan, the appearance of the IKARUS anti.virus symbol in the taskbar will change to indicate this.
Your software can only provide reliable protection against viruses, worms, spyware and Trojan horses if it is up-to-date.
IKARUS anti.virus therefore contains an automatic update feature. Every 20 minutes, it checks for new updates. These are then automatically installed. The program connects to the internet if no connection is currently available.
If you do not use your computer for a long period of time, IKARUS anti.virus automatically download the latest updates when you start your PC.
Figure 19: Update
There are two types of updates in IKARUS anti.virus: virus database updates and updates to IKARUS anti.virus itself.
Virus databases (or VDB for short) updates ensure that new malicious software is detected. The updates to IKARUS anti.virus are program updates that add new features or functions. Press ’Update now’ to check for new updates.
If the latest updates are already installed, ’All up to date’ will appear.
You can configure the scan to be performed automatically or start the scan manually in IKARUS anti.virus. You can manage and add as many scans as required.
Preset scans:
Figure 20: Scan
Individual scans are configured by pressing ”Add Scan Profile”.
Figure 21: Add Scan Profile
You can enter any name for the scan. Press “Browse” to select the folder, files etc. that you wish to scan. You may also set the program to perform an automatic scan where required.
The automatic scan can be scheduled for any time (e.g. every Friday at 12pm) and only scans the areas selected by the user.
Figure 22: Scan running
To start a scan, press ‘Scan Now’. You can stop or cancel a scan at any time. The status bar and remaining time indicator provide information on how the scan is progressing. If the scan is completed and no viruses were detected, you can press ’close window’ to return to the main window. If a virus was detected, please click to Section ‘3.4 Quarantine – what to do when a virus is found’ – and read the information provided there.
Figure 23: Start IKARUS anti.virus Scan via Explorer
Another way to start a scan is to right-click on a drive, file or folder in Windows Explorer and select “IKARUS anti.virus scan”.
Click scan settings in the scan window or in the menu to go to the exclusions tab.
Figure 24: Exclusions
In this tab, you can specify which files and processes are not scanned by IKARUS anti.virus.
It is also possible to limit the scan to files of a certain size or smaller.
If a virus was found the yellow IKARUS anti.virus icon is shown in the taskbar.
When an infected e-mail arrives in your inboy, IKARUS anti.virus detects the malicious program. A window will now appear on your screen, where IKARUS anti.virus notifies you that a virus was found and it was moved to the quarantine directory.
In the infected e-mail, the following text is shown when a virus is detected.
The information panel with the red bar shows a warning message in the scan window.
When a scan is automatically or manually started and a virus is detected, this is indicated as follows:.
Figure 25: Scan finished – 1 potential threat found
Figure 26: Quarantine – Virus found
Any viruses detected by IKARUS anti.virus are automatically moved to quarantine. Once the virus is ’quarantined’, it no longer represents a threat to your system.
Once the infected file is moved to quarantine, all access to it is denied. From this point on, the file does not represent a threat to your computer.
The Quarantine tab contains all the information you require on the virus and about ways to remove it. You can also start any of the functions in the Quarantine tab from the toolbar or in the menu under “Edit”.
The Quarantine tab in IKARUS anti.virus offers numerous options for configuring what actions to take when a virus or infected file is detected.
IKARUS anti.virus also suggests the best action to take in each case.
Press ‘Suggestion’ to carry out the actions proposed by the program.
You can also select a different option if you do not wish to follow the recommendation provided by IKARUS anti.virus:
In IKARUS anti.virus, you can check the quarantine list to see which viruses have already been detected, if any were deleted, or what actions were taken when they were detected.
Entries that appear in black indicate that a virus is in quarantine and no action has been taken. Now decide what action to take or follow the recommendations provided by IKARUS anti.virus.
Entries shown in grey indicate that a virus was deleted or saved to a back-up file. You can remove these entries from the list at any time by pressing “Clear list”.
Figure 27: Right-click on the virus
If the cursor is on a virus entry in the quarantine list, you can now right-click the item. A pop-up window now appears where you can specify what actions are to be taken.
Figure 28: Virus information
To get more information on any virus in the quarantine list, simply double-click on the file name or the original directory.
Figure 29: Save virus
If you right-click on “Save as…” a ”virus.zip” will be generated and you can send it to
IKARUS via mail.
Figure 30: Send virus to IKARUS
To do this automatically just use the function “send to ikarus”. You can do this wether anonymous or with your E-Mail adress to receive further informations from IKARUS.
IKARUS anti.virus can be used as an anti-virus-plugin for Microsoft SharePoint. The protection covers to components:
Figure 32: AntiVirus Settings for Microsoft SharePoint
The interface of IKARUS anti.virus offers you the possibility to activate or deactivate the whole protection of Microsoft SharePoint. The plugin itself is controlled in the administration panel of Microsoft SharePoint. Please note that the option “Attempt to clean infected documents” is not supported by IKARUS anti.virus und will therefore show no impact.
IMPORTANT: The IKARUS anti.virus Plugin requires a 64-bit operating system and SharePoint Server Version 2007 or higher.
Following the standard setting of SharePoint and IKARUS anti.virus, every file that is up- or downloaded will be scanned. If the file is not infected, end users on client computers will not notice anything of this process and will be able to go on working undisturbed.
If IKARUS anti.virus detects a virus, the running process will be stopped and the user will be informed over a dialogue box in the current browser window.
Figure 33: Notification about a detected virus when uploading
The figure shows the dialogue box that will be shown to the end user if IKARUS anti.virus has detected a virus within the uploading file.
Figure 34: Notification about a detected virus when downloading
These figure shows the dialogue box that appears if IKARUS anti.virus has detected a virus in a file that is being downloaded and if the option ”Scan documents on download” is active and ”Allow users to download infected documents” is deactivated.
SharePoint allows the server-administrator to activate or deactivate the scan of uploading and downloading files separately. If one these options is deactivated, IKARUS anti.virus will no longer carry out the virus-scans. Both options, to scan files on download or on upload, will be shown in the IKARUS anti.virus user interface as additional information – but it can only be changed directly in the administration panel of SharePoint.
IKARUS anti.virus offers the possibility to deactivate the surveillance of SharePoint completely. In that case, neither up- or downloads will be scanned.
Figure 35: Sharepoint-Settings IKARUS anti.virus
This figure shows the checkmark with the note “Monitor SharePoint Server” that can be set or deleted to control the protection of SharePoint. Below the current status of the up- und download-scanning is shown.
Figure 36: Sharepoint-Settings – Updating status
It might take a few moments until the settings have been checked: In that case you will see the note “Updating status …” as shown in this image.
Figure 37: Sharepoint-protection disabled
This image shows that the information of the up- and downloading status disappears if SharePoint protection is deactivated, Then the system protection is not completely safe configured which will be shown by displaying the warning symbol and the status ”Your system is partly safe configured”.
Figure 38: Sharepoint-protection not complete
If unexpected problems occur with IKARUS anti.virus, no SharePoint files can be scanned. In this case, upload and download are completely prevented for security reasons, provided that the respective scan option is activated on the SharePoint. For the SharePoint end user on the client computer, this problem manifests itself in the following error message: „installed virus scanner is currently unavailable. If the problem persists, contact your administrator.”
Figure 39: SharePoint-protection complete
Several interface languages are available in IKARUS anti.virus. The software determines the right language (based on your computer settings) during the installation process.
Figure 40: Language settings
The window for changing the language settings is opened under ‘Tools’ > ‘Language’ in the menu
After restarting IKARUS anti.virus, the display is available in this language.
IKARUS anti.virus supports the following languages:
Under „Tools/Logs” you can specify which logs are shown for which actions. In the log window, the previous actions carried out by utilities are displayed.
Figure 41: Logs of performed actions
These logs come in particularly handy when you need to get in touch with the IKARUS support hotline (see section 7). You can also view and check the logs to see which actions were performed by IKARUS anti.virus.
Figure 42: E-Mail Einstellungen
In the Email tab, you can enable and configure e-mail scanning.
Figure 43: Update-settings
The Update tab shows the different options available for the update function.
Figure 44: Dial Up Connection-Settings
The Modem connection tab is used to set the autodial function for updating IKARUS anti.virus. You can specify a period of time during which Auto Update can automatically dial and connect to the internet (if dial-up connection is selected).
Figure 45: Exclusions-Settings
On the Exclusions tab you can select which files and process are excluded from the IKARUS anti.virus scan. This may be quite useful in cases where you wish to exclude a service from the scan that is already using a good amount of the system resources (mp3 or holiday photos), or if you do not want one specific directory to be scanned.
Figure 46: Logs-Settings
Select what actions are to be logged by IKARUS anti.virus on the ‘Logs’ tab.
In the ‘Extras’ tab, you can specify additional settings:
Press ‘Restore Default Settings” to reset IKARUS anti.virus to its original settings following installation. All previously changes to the settings are reset.
Figure 47: Extras-Settings
For inquiries and consultation with IKARUS it is helpful to obtain detailed informations about the installed version of IKARUS anti.virus or the virus database (VDB).
To make the process as fast and efficient as possible, there are several ways to get in touch with us and send us information regarding questions you have on IKARUS anti.virus.
Figure 48: Support – Version information
Go to Support in the menu bar to quickly view the current version number of your IKARUS anti.virus. You will need this information when contacting our support team.
Figure 49: Support – Contact
You can also view the contact details in IKARUS anti.virus. When you write an email to this address, it is automatically sent to us with the vital version information.
Under “Support” – “Save Support Info” in the menu, you can compile the most support information and send it to us as a zip file.
Figure 50: Support-Info
The IKARUS anti.virus program comes with a special license key. This governs the length of your license and the number of installed users.
You automatically receive the license key when you purchase IKARUS anti.virus or sending the registration form to IKARUS via product activation.
Under Help in the menu, you can check, delete, add or archive your license keys.
Figure 51: IKARUS anti.virus Licenses
It is also possible to manage multiple license keys in cases, for instance, where a license key is set to expire soon and you have already received the new one. IKARUS anti.virus automatically selects the right key.
Please contact our support team if you cannot find your license key or you did not receive one.
If you have an activation key, please fill in your personal data and send the registration to IKARUS to receive a license key for IKARUS anti.virus, which will be imported into the software automatically.
Figure 52: Activate the software via activation code