User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

106 Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
One of the following statuses can be assigned to the email object after the scan:
• Malicious program status (for example, virus, Trojan – for more details,
see 1.1 on pg. 11).
• Potentially infected, when the scan cannot determine whether the object
is infected. This means that the program detected a sequence of code in
the file from an unknown virus or modified code from a known virus.
By default, when Mail Anti-Virus detects a dangerous or potentially infected
object, it displays a warning on the screen and prompts the user to select an
action for the object.
To edit an action for an object:
open the application settings window and select Mail Anti-Virus under
Protection. All possible actions for dangerous objects are listed in the
Action box (see Figure 30).
Figure 30. Selecting actions for dangerous email objects
Let’s look at the possible options for processing dangerous email objects in more
detail.
If the action selected was When a dangerous object is detected
Prompt for action
Block access
Mail Anti-Virus will issue a warning
message containing information about what
malicious program has infected (potentially
infected) the file and gives you the choice
of one of the following actions.
Mail Anti-Virus will block access to the
object. Information about this is recorded in
the report (see 19.3 on pg. 240). Later you
can attempt to disinfect this object.