ThreatFire Quick Start Guide

ThreatFire is an easy-to-use application designed to protect your computer against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows by intelligently detecting and blocking behavior consistent with that of malware. ThreatFire does this by constantly monitoring your system, and analyzing programs and process activity. Whenever ThreatFire detects any unusual process or activity, it will display an alert with further information on the threat. If it is a known threat, then ThreatFire will automatically quarantine the malware and no further action is required on your part. If the threat is unknown, or new, then ThreatFire will display an alert and prompt you to Allow or Quarantine the process. All alerts provide detailed information to help you make an informed decision.

This Quick Start Guide is designed to get you started using ThreatFire immediately. When you launch ThreatFire, you are taken to the Security Status screen which displays the security status report for both Your Protection and Community Protection. 'Your Protection' provides you with information on what ThreatFire is doing to protect your particular PC. 'Community Protection' provides you information on what ThreatFire is doing to protect the entire community of ThreatFire users.

If ThreatFire is minimized to the System Tray, double-click its icon to launch ThreatFire and display the Security Status screen. Alternatively, right-click the icon to display the pop-up menu from where you can open ThreatFire, view the status report, and activate/suspend ThreatFire protection.

ThreatFire is available in two versions: ThreatFire Free Edition and ThreatFire Pro. You may upgrade the ThreatFire Free Edition at any time to access the more comprehensive protection provided in ThreatFire Pro. For a full comparison between the two versions, please visit the ThreatFire website : http://www.threatfire.com.

Security Status screen

Toggle the link to activate or deactivate ThreatFire's protection features.

Status Report

This section displays the status report which is divided into tabs allowing you to view the report for specific time periods. Simply click on a tab to view the report for the current day, the last 7 days, the last 90 days or the Total report for all time periods.

The report lists:

Events Analyzed : The number of times ThreatFire has evaluated an action to determine whether it was potentially harmful.
Programs Examined : The number of processes that ThreatFire monitored or examined for signs of suspicious behaviour.
Suspicious Activities Detected : The number of times that ThreatFire has flagged a potentially risky process.
Malware Blocked : The number of times that ThreatFire has discovered and blocked Malware.

Navigation

Clicking these buttons on the left of the product interface does the following actions:

	Takes you to the Security Status screen which displays the security status report of your system, the community status report, as well as a link to activate/deactivate ThreatFire protection.
	Displays the Scan screen from where you can run a Full Scan (comprehensive) or Basic Scan (partial) for rootkits and/or viruses. Note that the virus scan option is only available for users of ThreatFire Pro.
	Displays the Threat Control Center, where you can view and manage items that are allowed, denied or quarantined by Threatfire.
	Displays the Advanced Rules screen which enables advanced users to configure custom rules for ThreatFire protection.
	Displays the Settings screen from where you can configure a range of ThreatFire's settings including General, Quarantine, and Scheduled Scan settings.

Smart Update

PC Tools releases frequent Smart Updates to to provide enhancements to ThreatFire. The Smart Update function can be initiated at any time by clicking Smart Update at the top of the product interface. Please be aware that the main application may close temporarily while updates are downloading and being implemented. If so, ThreatFire restarts immediately once this process is complete.

Help menu

The Help menu provides access to this Quick Start Guide, more detailed Help, relevant ThreatFire and PC Tools web pages and the product About screen.

The ThreatFire UserÆs Guide is available in PDF format from the ThreatFire web site. You can read the User's Guide on your screen or print out the entire manual or sections of the manual for your reference. To download the User’s Guide, please click here.

Licence Agreement

Click here to view the ThreatFire End User Licence Agreement ("EULA").