Real-Time Protection

Immediately after the startup (that is indicated by the red icon in the system tray), Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal scans all objects executed at the operating system startup, as well as the computer memory and its program modules.

Real-time protection of your computer will use settings recommended by Kaspersky Labs experts as follows:

Objects being opened, saved or executed on your hard drive and removable drives that can be potentially infected will be scanned, including:
disk boot sectors (these objects are scanned immediately after the system startup);
packed files and objects linked or embedded into files ( OLE objects);
incoming e-mail messages (upon receipt).

Real-time protection does not include scanning objects that cannot contain viruses.

When an infected object is detected, the program denies access to this object and prompts the user for action.
When an object that is possibly infected with a virus or a virus modification is detected, the program denies access to this object and prompts user for action.
The results of all actions of the program are documented in reports (see section Working with reports).

Real-time anti-virus protection is enabled automatically after the system startup and remains active until the system shuts down.

You can disable real-time protection manually. In order to do this:

Right-click the icon in the system tray.
When the shortcut menu appears, select Disable Real-Time Protection.

Real-time protection of your computer will be then disabled and the active icon (red) will turn inactive (gray).

We do not recommend that you disable real-time anti-virus protection because this considerably increases the risk of a virus infection.