User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

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File Anti-virus is the component that monitors your computer’s file system.
It scans all files that are opened, run, and saved on your computer and
any attached drives. The program intercepts every attempt to access a
file and scans the file for known viruses, only making the file available to
be used further if it is not infected or is successfully disinfected by File
Anti-Virus. If a file cannot be disinfected for any reason, it will be deleted,
with a copy of the file either saved in Backup (see 19.2 on pg. 238), or
moved to Quarantine (cf. Section 19.1, p. 235).
Mail Anti-Virus
Email is widely used by hackers to spread malicious programs, and is one
of the most common methods of spreading worms. This makes it
extremely important to monitor all email.
The Mail Anti-Virus component scans all incoming and outgoing email on
your computer. It analyzes emails for malicious programs, only granting
the addressee access to the email if it is free of dangerous objects.
Web Anti-Virus
Opening various web sites you put your computer at risk for infection with
viruses which will be installed using scripts contained in such web pages
as well as for downloading dangerous objects.
Web Anti-Virus is specially designed to combat these risks, by
intercepting and blocking scripts on web sites if they pose a threat, and by
thoroughly monitoring all HTTP traffic.
Proactive Defense
The number of malicious programs grows daily. Such programs become
more complex combining several types of threats and modifying delivery
routes. They become ever more difficult to detect.
To detect a new malicious program before it has time to do any damage,
Kaspersky Lab has developed a special component, Proactive Defense. It
is designed to monitor and analyze the behavior of all installed programs
on your computer. Kaspersky Internet Security decides, based on the
program’s actions: is it potentially dangerous? Proactive Defense protects
your computer both from known viruses and from new ones that have yet
to be discovered.
Privacy Control
Various online scams have become common recently (phishing,
autodialers, confidential data theft, such as logins and passwords). These
actions can do serious financial damage.
Privacy Control traces these online scams on your computer and blocks
them. For example, this component will block programs attempting to