AntivirusSetupInstructions
How To Set Up your antivirus
This page is meant to help people set up their antivirus properly to work with Shareaza. If you know how to set up an antivirus program that is not listed then please add it. If one of the instructions is wrong and you know how to fix it please do so
NOD32:
1. Open NOD32 Control Centre (look in system tray), 2. Go to AMON File system monitoring module, 3. Click Setup, 4. Tick all the boxes in the Detection tab.
Note: This is already the default setup, so unless you have disabled your anti-virus for some (strange) reason, you're already protected.
Avast (version 4.7 Home Edition):
1. Using the avast tray icon(the spinning "a"), Open "On-access Protection Control" 2. Click the "Details >>" button. This should open up a list of Installed providers 3. Scroll down the list of providers and select the "P2P Shield" icon 4. Under the "Provider Actions" section, check that it is running.
- If only the "Start" button is click-able then click it to start the P2P Shield.
- If only "Pause" and "Terminate" are click-able then it is already running
5. Click on the "Customize" button 6. Ensure that "Shareaza*" is selected. (they should all be selected by default) 7. Click "OK" to save your settings, and "OK" again to close the "avast On-access Scanner" window
AVG Free Edition
1. Launch AVG Control Center either through the tray icon or the start menu 2. Select "Resident Shield" and click the "Properties" button 3. ensure that "Turn on AVG Resident Shield Protection" is checked as well as the "scan all files" radio button 4. It is recommended that you check all the "additional options" as well 5. Click OK to close the properties window 6. Close the AVG Control Center window
For a short list of free, commercial and online antivirus solutions check out our Wiki Page