Kaspersky PURE User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

U S E R G U I D EIN THIS SECTION:Enabling and disabling self-protection ........................................................................................................................... 216Protection against external control ................................................................................................................................ 216ENABLING AND DISABLING SELF-PROTECTIONBy default, Kaspersky PURE self-protection is enabled. You can disable self-defense, if necessary.To enable or disable Kaspersky PURE self-protection:1. Open the main application window.2. In the top part of the window, click the Settings link.3. In the left part of the window, in the General Settings section, select the Self-Defense subsection.4. In the right part of the window, uncheck the Enable Self-Defense box, if Kaspersky PURE self-protectionshould be disabled. Check this box if you need to enable self-defense.PROTECTION AGAINST EXTERNAL CONTROLBy default, protection against external control is enabled. You can disable protection, if necessary.Frequent are the situations when remote administration programs (such as RemoteAdmin) are needed while using theremote access protection. To ensure these applications normal performance, you should add them to the list of trustedapplications (see section "Creating a list of trusted applications" on page 150) and enable the Do not monitorapplication activity setting for them.To disable protection against external control:1. Open the main application window.2. In the top part of the window, click the Settings link.3. In the left part of the window, in the General Settings section, select the Self-Defense subsection.4. In the right part of the window, in the External control section, uncheck the Disable external service controlbox.APPLICATION'S APPEARANCEYou can change the appearance of Kaspersky PURE, using alternate skins. Also, the use of various active interfaceelements can be configured (such as the application icon in the Microsoft Windows taskbar notification area, or pop-upmessages).216