Anti-Virus Settings
Scanner (Anti-Virus Premium) protects your device from viruses and other malware. Scanner (Anti-Virus Premium) includes the following components: protection (Premium), scan, update, and quarantine.
Protection is available only for the commercial version of Kaspersky Mobile Security.
Protection prevents the device from being infected in real time: it scans all files that are opened, saved and launched, and all new apps.
Scan is launched on demand to detect and eliminate threats on your device (such as infected files as they are opened, unopened files, and uninstalled files in archives). You can choose to scan the entire file system of the device, a specific folder, or installed apps only.
Updates to Kaspersky Mobile Security's anti-virus databases and app version (henceforth "updates") ensure that your device protection is up to date.
Kaspersky Mobile Security uses anti-virus databases when searching for malware. The anti-virus databases of the app contain descriptions of malware currently known to Kaspersky Lab and ways to neutralize it, as well as descriptions of other malicious objects. For this reason, it is strongly recommended to update the anti-virus databases regularly. If more than 15 days have passed since the last update, the databases are regarded as out of date. Protection will then be less reliable.
As well as the anti-virus databases, Kaspersky Mobile Security allows you to update the app version. App version updates add new Kaspersky Mobile Security features or improve existing features.
If you download Kaspersky Mobile Security from Google Play, the application updates anti-virus databases only. Application version is updated via Google Play.
Kaspersky Mobile Security runs updates from Kaspersky Lab's update servers (special websites that contain updates for all Kaspersky Lab products).
Protection mode (Premium)
Protection is enabled when the operating system starts up, and is always found in the device's memory. Protection allows scanning of all files that are opened, saved and launched, and all apps that are installed.
Protection mode
The mode used by Protection to track changes in the file system in background mode and to scan it for malicious objects. The following Protection modes are available:
- Extended. Protection scans for the presence of malicious objects when any action is performed on them (for example, when they are opened, run, copied, saved, moved, or modified). Protection scans new apps as soon as they are installed.
- Recommended. Protection scans for the presence of malicious objects only in newly installed apps and does not scan other files or actions involving them. Protection scans new apps as soon as they are installed.
- Disabled. Protection is disabled.
You can temporarily disable Protection to reduce load on the device when running several tasks concurrently.
Kaspersky Lab specialists do not recommend disabling Protection, as this could lead to the infection of your computer and loss of data.
Even if Protection is disabled, Anti-Virus can perform other functions, such as scanning the file system for viruses or updating anti-virus databases.
Cloud Security Scan (Premium)
There is an additional scan of newly installed apps using the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service (a special Kaspersky Lab online service that contains information about the reliability of files, apps, and Internet resources). Scanning using the cloud service helps to protect your data from new and unknown threats.
If the box is checked, Kaspersky Mobile Security carries out additional checks on newly installed apps before they are run for the first time using the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service. If the box is unchecked, Kaspersky Mobile Security does not carry out additional checks.
This setting is available if Protection mode is set to either Recommend
ed or Extended.
Adware, dialers, and other
Detection of adware and apps that can be used by criminals for damaging your device or personal data. This category includes apps that attempt to access to your personal data, send SMS messages or your location coordinates.
If the check box is selected, Kaspersky Mobile Security detects apps belonging to this category and notifies you when they are detected. If the check box is cleared, Kaspersky Mobile Security does not take any action on detecting apps in this category.
Component Settings
You can configure each Anti-Virus component individually.
Protection settings (Premium)
You can select the types of files that the app scans for the presence of threats, and specify the action for the app to perform on threat detection.
Scan settings.
You can specify files types that must be scanned. In addition, you can set an action to be performed by the app on threat detection (for example, disinfect or delete), and configure automatic scheduled scans.
Update settings (Premium)
You can configure automatic scheduled updates.
Quarantine
You can view the contents of Quarantine (a dedicated isolated storage). The app quarantines files detected during scans of the device or during the operation of Protection. The app stores quarantined files in packed form so they cannot harm the device.
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