13.4 Configuration Suggestions 

Please pay attention to the following suggestions for rules configuration. Ignoring these main 

principles can result in serious problems, such as network congestion, Denial of Service error 

occurrence on application servers, etc. 

For the proper AVG Anti Virus Remote Administration functionality we recommend that you keep 

the specific notifications sending action in default rules. If you want to disable this action you should 

have an actual serious reason to do so. For generic text notification sending we recommend creating a 

new rule! 

Using the E mail action is recommended only for exceptional situations, such as virus detection by 

the AVG Resident Shield on a mission critical system. Otherwise, the load generated by E mail 

sending action can congest a recipient's mailbox and overload the mail server. The final damage can 

then be greater than the potential one caused by a successfully captured virus. 

Generally, use of automatic actions is not recommended in the Dialog for Resident Shield option. 

Deletion of system essential files can result in unwanted system or application failures without 

informing the user of possible reasons for such a situation. Moreover, the user is not informed in case 

a virus epidemic is caused by dangerous or irresponsible behavior, such as browsing untrustworthy 

websites or the launching of unknown applications. 

Before implementing a rule in a larger network we recommend testing the rule in a testing 

environment first. Particularly, it is necessary to evaluate the potential impact of a newly created rule 

on the network resources   mail servers, free disk space, number of event records in operating 

system Event Log and so on. 

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