I just leave it as the default action for the guard (deny access is selected?)... and since I always keep it interactive, it doesn't much matter.

I keep the manual scanner interactive as well, unless I'm scanning someone's computer and there is a gazillion copies of some dumb assed trojan dll that replicates itself. When I'm in that mode, I tell it to delete without prompting.

You're showing me the old Antivir UI there, but in the new one the guard is always interactive. (probably just the free version... there's a provision for a setting there but there's only a single bulleted choice for interactive)

Also, in the new one you have to enable the "expert mode" checkbox to see all the settings.

Now, I make sure both the scanner and the guard are set to scan all files, and I also enable all the other unwanted program types (backdoors, dialers, joke programs and bullshit). That's "Extended threat categories" in the new UI.

I also have heuristics set to high for both the scanner and guard. I'm giving this program as much testing as I can. So far, I'm fairly happy with it.

What I did tonight was, grabbed the latest MVPS hosts file and I go to the hostnames in Internet Explorer (particularly ones that install insidious trojans... there's comments beside the entries) and see about infecting the system. I pretend I'm a typical idiot and say yes to anything that prompts. At first I started out with the guard enabled to see how well it would do, but Antivir was a bloody nuisance, it wouldn't let me install trojans and malware so I had to disable it :-)

I wanted to give the scanner a bit of a test as well. After going to many sites and letting them own me, I let it all percolate a bit, rebooted a few times, waited, used the sick browser and laughed etc. then I did a full scan with Antivir, deleted everything found, and rebooted afterwards and scanned again and came up clean.

I then mopped up the rest of the mess (mostly registry entries) with spybot, hijackthis and crapcleaner.