Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 6 Online Manual
178 (53%) 
161 (47%)Tips: Convert Microsoft Excel to HTML | PDF to HTML | Convert paper documents to PDF / HTML
Introduction to Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 Help 
Threats to Computer Security
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0
- Program interface
- Getting started
- Initial Setup Wizard
- What protection status does my computer have?
- How to Scan Your Computer for Viruses
- How to scan critical regions of the computer
- How to Scan a File, Folder or Disk for Viruses
- How to Update the Program
What to do if protection is not running
- Multi-tasked protection management
- Anti-virus protection of the computer file system
- File Anti-Virus status
- Pausing / disabling File Anti-Virus
- Selecting a file security level
- Configuring File Anti-Virus settings
- File Anti-Virus statistics
- Delayed object treatment
- Mail Anti-Virus
- Mail protection status
- Pausing / disabling e-mail protection
- Selecting an e-mail security level
- Configuring e-mail protection
- E-mail protection statistics
- Web Anti-Virus
- Proactive Defense
- Scanning for viruses on your computer
- Virus scan task status
- Managing virus scan tasks
- Creating a lists of objects to scan
- Creating virus scan tasks
- Configuring virus scan tasks
- Selecting a security level
- Defining the types of objects to be scanned
- Advanced virus scan options
- Detecting rootkits and using heuristic methods to scan for viruses
- Configuring a scan task schedule
- Restoring default scan settings
- Selecting actions for objects
- Designating universal scan settings for all tasks
- Virus scan statistics
- Testing Kaspersky Anti-Virus features
- Updating the application
- Managing keys
- Additional options
- Program data files
- Rescue disk
- Traffic Monitoring
- Configuring connection settings
- Configuring the Kaspersky Anti-Virus interface
- Selecting skins
- Using additional tools
- User technical support
- Shutting down the program
- Frequently asked questions
- Types of notifications
- Malicious objects discovered
- When you cannot disinfect object
- Special treatment required
- Suspicious objects discovered
- Dangerous object detected in traffic
- Dangerous activity detected in the system
- Rolling back dangerous actions
- Invader detected
- Attempt to executive buffer overflow code detected
- Attempt to open browser with command line parameters
- Hidden process detected
- Attempt to breach application module integrity detected
- Attempt to access the system registry detected
- Attempt to redirect calling of system functions detected
- Quarantined object must be processed
- When you cannot disinfect a quarantined object
- Quarantined object is not infected
- SSL connection detected
- Working with the program from the command prompt
- Activating the program
- Managing application components and tasks
- Starting a Virus Search
- Program Updates
- Rolling back to the last program update
- Exporting protection settings
- Importing protection settings
- Starting the program
- Stopping the program
- Creating a trace file
- Viewing Help
- Return codes from the command line interface
- Kaspersky Lab
 |
What protection status does my computer have? |
Your computer's protection status graphically tells you whether threats are currently impacting your system's overall security level. These threats include both malicious programs detected and using outdated databases for the program, disabling protection components, using minimum program operation settings, etc.
Protection status is displayed at the top of the application 
main window and is color coded like a traffic light . Depending on the situation the color motif of the top section of the window will change, and in the event of security threats the color will be supplemented by information messages implemented as links to the Security Wizard .
The following color codes are used to show protection status:
- Application Main Window is green. This status is an indication that your computer is properly protected.
- Application Main Window is yellow. Your computer's protection level is lower than its previous status. This protection status is indicative of certain problems with the application or application settings.
- Application Main Window is red . Your computer is seriously at risk of infection. This status points to problems that could lead to your computer being infected and to data loss.
For example, one or more protection components have failed, the product has not been updated in a long time or malicious objects have been discovered and urgently need to be disabled, the product has not been activated .
If there are problems in the protection system, we recommend fixing them immediately. Use the Security Wizard which will be accessed by clicking the notification of security threats. The security wizard will help you look through all the current threats in order and will take you to the appropriate place to remove them. The criticality of the threat is depicted by the color of the indicator:
- the indicator is directing your attention to non-critical threats that may, however, lower the overall protection level on your computer. Please pay heed to the recommendations from Kaspersky Lab specialists.
- the indicator is showing that there are serious threats to your computer's security. Please carefully follow the recommendations below. They are all aimed at better protecting your computer. The recommended actions are given as links.To browse the list of existing threats, click the Next button. A description is given of each threat and the following courses of action are available:
- Eliminate threat immediately. By using the corresponding links, you can directly eliminate the threat. For in-depth information on events related to this threat, you can view the report file. The recommended action is immediately eliminating the threat.
- Postpone threat elimination. If for any reason you cannot immediately eliminate the threat, you can postpone that action and come back to it later. To do so, use the Postpone link.
Note that this option is not available for serious threats. Such threats include, for example, malicious objects that cannot be disinfected, crashes in components, or corrupted program database files.
If you still have threats left after you have finished the Security Wizard, a reminder will appear in the upper part of the main window telling you that you need to eliminate them. If you open the Security Wizard again, the postponed threats will not be on the list of active threats. However, you can still come back to view and eliminate postponed threats by clicking the View threats with postponed decisions link in the final window of the wizard.
Also see the current status of: