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 If more than 15 days have passed since the last update, the databases are regarded as out of date.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)

Cloud Security Scan (Premium)

Adware, dialers, and other

Component Settings