Kaspersky Lab: Antivirus software Manual

Kaspersky Lab Manual

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Introduction to Help

Obtaining information about the application

Sources of information to research on your own

Contacting the Sales Department

Contacting the Technical Support service

Discussing Kaspersky Lab applications on the web forum

What's new in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Application protection concept

Heuristic analysis

Wizards and Tools

Support features

Threats to computer security

Potentialy unwanted programs

Adware

Pornware

Riskware

Methods of detecting infected, suspicious and potentially dangerous objects by the application

Other threats

Spam or unsolicited incoming mail

Phishing

Network attacks

Banners display

Application interface

Notification area icon

Shortcut menu

Main Application Window

Notifications

Application settings configuration window

Getting started

Application Configuration Wizard

Step 1. Activating the application

Online activation

User registration

Obtaining a key file

Activating trial version

Activating using a key

Completing activation

Step 2. Selecting protection mode

Step 3. Configuring application updates

Step 4. Restricting access to the application

Step 5. Selecting detectable threats

Step 6. Disabling caching of DNS

Step 7. System analysis

Step 8. Email analysis

Step 9. Feedback

Step 10. Wizard completion

Selecting network type

Updating the application

Security Analyzer

Scan computer for viruses

Managing license

Subscription for the automatic license renewal

Participating in Kaspersky Security Network

Security Management

Pausing protection

Protection against malware

Protection of files and memory

Component operation algorithm

Changing a file and memory security level

Changing actions to be performed with detected objects

Creating a protection scope

Using heuristic analysis

Scan optimization

Scan of compound files

Scanning large compound files

Changing the scan mode

Scanning technology

Pausing the component: creating a schedule

Pausing the component: creating an application list

Mail protection

Component operation algorithm

Changing an e-mail security level

Changing actions to be performed with detected objects

Creating a protection scope

E-mail scanning in Microsoft Office Outlook

E-mail scanning by a plug-in in The Bat!

Using heuristic analysis

Scan of compound files

Filtering attachments

Web Traffic Protection

Component operation algorithm

Changing HTTP traffic security level

Changing actions to be performed with detected objects

Creating a protection scope

Using heuristic analysis

Scan optimization

System Security

Application Filtering

Component operation algorithm

Inheriting rights

Threat rating

Application Groups

Selecting the operation mode

Creating a protection scope

Configuring the device access rights

Application Filtering rules

Creating rules for an application

Quick rule settings configuration

Fine-tuning rule settings

Configuring Exclusions

Firewall

Selecting the operation mode

Changing the network status

Extending the range of network addresses

Selecting mode of notifications about network changes

Firewall rules

Creating a packet rule

Creating rules for an application

Rule Creation Wizard

Selecting actions to be performed by the rule

Configuring network service settings

Selecting addresses range

Changing the rule priority

Proactive Defense

Configuring notifications about application activities

Disabling notifications for trusted applications

Online Security

Network Attack Blocker

Blocking the attacking computers

Types of detected network attacks

Protection against secret dialing

Protection against phishing

Content Filtering

Anti-Spam

Component operation algorithm

Training Anti-Spam

Training Anti-Spam using the Training Wizard

Training Anti-Spam using outgoing messages

Training using E-mail client

Training using Anti-Spam reports

Changing the Sensitivity Level

Filtering e-mail messages at the server. Mail Dispatcher

Excluding Microsoft Exchange Server messages from the scan

Selecting the spam filtering technology

Determining spam and potential spam factors

Using additional spam filtering features

Creating the white list of addresses

Creating the list of allowed phrases

Importing white list addresses

Creating Black lists of addresses

Creating a list of banned phrases

Actions to be performed with spam

Configuring spam processing in Microsoft Office Outlook

Configuring spam processing in Microsoft Outlook Express (Windows Mail)

Configuring spam processing in The Bat!

Configuring spam processing in Thunderbird

Tips on using Anti-Spam

Good e-mail messages are sometimes detected as spam. What should I do?

Anti-Spam does not recognize all spam email. What should I do?

Spam is most often received in certain format How can I increase the probability of detection of this type of spam?

I know exactly which addresses spam is not sent from. What should I do?

I know exactly which addresses spam is being sent from. What should I do?

Banner Ad Blocker

Using heuristic analysis

Creating the list of trusted addresses

Creating the list of banned addresses

Export / import of a banner list

Parental Control

Component operation algorithm

Using profiles

Switching between the profiles

Modifying restriction level

Selecting the categories of banned sites

Creating the list of trusted addresses

Creating the list of banned addresses

Configuring response to attempts to access banned websites

Access time restriction

Virus scan

Virus scan tasks

Launching virus scan

Changing the security level

Actions performed when a threat is detected

Run mode: creating a schedule

Run mode: specifying an account

Creating a list of objects to scan

Changing the type of objects to scan

Scan optimization

Scan of compound files

Changing the scan method

Scanning technology

Assigning global scan settings to all tasks

Update

Starting Update

Rolling back the last update

Selecting an update source

Using proxy server

Regional settings

Selecting objects to update

Actions to be performed after the update

Updates from the local folder

Changing the updating task launch mode

Running updates under a different user's account

Tasks

Network Monitor

Security Analyzer

Configuring the browser

Network packet analysis

Access to Network packet analysis

Starting / Stopping packet interception

Filtering packets by addresses of the source and destination

Filtering packets by transfer protocol

Restoring after infection

Restore disk

Creating a rescue disk

Using the rescue disk

Privacy Cleaner Wizard

Virtual keyboard

Configuring application settings

Protection

Enabling / disabling computer protection

Starting the application at the system startup

Using Interactive Protection Mode

Restricting access to application

Exporting/importing application's settings

Restoring the default settings

Application Self-Defense

Advanced Disinfection Technology

Using Application on a Laptop

Computer Efficiency During Task Execution

Threats and exclusions

Selecting the detectable threat categories

Selecting trusted applications

Exclusion rules

Additional exclusion settings

Allowed file exclusion masks

Allowed masks of threat types

Notifications

Disabling the sound accompanying notifications

Delivery of notifications using email

Network

Creating a list of monitored ports

Verifying Secure Connections

Verifying Secure Connections in Mozilla Firefox

Verifying Secure Connections in Opera

Proxy server settings

Access to Network packet analysis

Reports

Clearing the application reports

Logging events into report

Feedback

Application Appearance

Active Interface Elements

Application Skin

Reports

Selecting component or task to create a report

Managing grouping of information in the report

Selecting event type

Displaying Data on Screen

Table or graphic presentation of statistical information

Saving a report into a file

Using complex filtering

Events search

Program Performance Statistics

The Status tab

The Detected Threats tab

The Statistics tab

Notifications

Validating application settings

Test "virus" EICAR and its modifications

Testing the HTTP traffic protection

Testing the SMTP traffic protection

Validating Files and Memory settings

Validating virus scan task settings

Validating Anti-Spam settings

Working with the application from the command prompt

Activating the application

Managing application components and tasks

Virus scan

Updating the application

Rolling back the last update

Exporting protection settings

Importing protection settings

Starting the application

Stopping the application

Creating a trace file

Viewing Help

Return codes from the command line interface

Eliminating problems

Creating Reports About System Status

Creating the tracing file

Sending Data Files

Executing AVZ script

Kaspersky Security Network Data Collection Statement

Kaspersky Lab

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Using third-party code

CryptoEx LLC

pcre 7.4 Library

GNU bison parser Library

AGG 2.4 Library

zlib 1.2 Library

libpng 1.2.8 Library

OpenSSL 0.9.8d Library

Gecko SDK 1.8 Library

expat 1.2 Library

T-Rex 1.0 Library

Windows Template Library (WTL 7.5) Library

Info-ZIP 5.51 Library

libnkfm 2.0.5 Library

Windows Installer XML (WiX) 2.0 Library

RFC1321-based (RSA-free) MD5 library