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Selecting actions to be performed on detected objects

Kaspersky Anti-Virus blocks access to the detected object irrespective of the selected action.

As a result of the scan, Kaspersky Anti-Virus assigns one of the following statuses to the object:

  • infected – , if code of a known virus is detected in the object;
  • potentially infected, if the scan cannot determine whether the object is infected or not. This means that the program detected a sequence of code in the file from an unknown virus, or modified code from a known virus.

You can specify two actions to be performed on objects with each status. If Kaspersky Anti-Virus fails to perform the first action, it will perform the second action.

You can specify the following actions to be performed on the detected objects:

  • Perform recommended action. Kaspersky Anti-Virus automatically selects and performs actions on the object based on data about the threat detected in the object and about the possibility of disinfecting it. For example, Kaspersky Anti-Virus will immediately remove Trojans since they do not incorporate themselves into other files and do not infect them; therefore they do not need to be disinfected.
  • Disinfect. Kaspersky Anti-Virus attempts to disinfect the object, and if disinfection is not possible, it leaves the object intact.
  • Quarantine. Kaspersky Anti-Virus moves the object to quarantine, where it is stored in encrypted form.
  • Delete. Kaspersky Anti-Virus deletes the object.
  • Skip. Kaspersky Anti-Virus leaves the object unchanged.

    The option to Perform recommended action can only be selected as the first action.

    If Skip was selected as the first action, the second action can be Skip only.

    If Perform recommended action or Remove was selected as the first action, Quarantine cannot be selected as the second action.

To configure actions to perform on infected objects, perform the following steps:

  1. In the left part of Kaspersky Web Management Console select the Real-time protection task type.
  2. Select theProtection areas tab.
  3. Within the line containing the selected protection area, click the link in the Security Level column.

    This will open the Task settings window on the Security settings tab.

  4. In the Infected files dropdown list, select the required actions.
  5. Click OK to close the Task settings window.
  6. On the Protection areas tab, click the Save button to save the changes.

To configure actions to perform on potentially infected objects, perform the following steps:

  1. In the left part of Kaspersky Web Management Console select the Real-time protection task type.
  2. Select theProtection areas tab.
  3. Within the line containing the selected protection area, click the link in the Security Level column.

    This will open the Task settings window on the Security settings tab.

  4. In the Potentially infected files dropdown list, select the required actions.
  5. Click OK to close the Task settings window.
  6. On the Protection areas tab, click the Save button to save the changes.
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