User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

46 Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
The Kaspersky Internet Security icon changes in relation to the operation being
performed:
Emails are being scanned.
Scripts are being scanned.
A file that you or some program is opening, saving, or running is being
scanned.
Kaspersky Internet Security databases and program modules are being
updated.
An error has occurred in some Kaspersky Internet Security component.
The icon also provides access to the basics of the program interface: the context
menu (see 4.2 on pg. 46) and the main window (see 4.3 on pg. 48).
To open the context menu, right-click on the program icon.
To open the Kaspersky Internet Security main window at the Protection section
(this is the default first screen when you open the program), double-click the
program icon. If you single-click the icon, the main window will open at the
section that was active when you last closed it.
If news from Kaspersky Lab is available, the following icon will appear in the
taskbar. Double click the icon to view the news in the resulting window.
4.2. The context menu
You can perform basic protection tasks from the context menu (see Figure 1).
The Kaspersky Internet Security menu contains the following items:
Scan My Computer – launches a complete scan of your computer for
dangerous objects. The files on all drives, including removable storage
media, will be scanned.
Virus Scan: select objects and start virus scan. The default list contains a
number of files, such as the My Documents folder, the Startup folder,
email databases, all the drives on your computer, etc. You can add to
the list, select files to be scanned, and start virus scans.
Update: start Kaspersky Internet Security, module, and database updates
and install updates on your computer.
Network Monitor – view the list of network connections established, open
ports, and traffic.