The purpose and major functions of Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal

Protection from viruses and malicious computer programs - detection and eradication of malware penetrating computers via removable and permanent storage devices, e-mail, and Internet protocols. When using the program, the following modes can be used (either jointly or separately):

Real-time anti-virus protection - performing a virus scan of all objects being run, opened or saved.

On-demand scan - performing a virus scan and disinfection of your entire computer or of selected disks, files, or folders. You can launch an on-demand scan manually or set up a regular scheduled scan.

Recovery of your computer operability after a virus attack - performing a full scan and disinfection using settings recommended by Kaspersky Labs experts will allow you to eradicate any viruses that have infected your files during a virus attack.

Scanning and disinfecting of incoming/outgoing e-mail traffic - performing a real-time virus scan and disinfection of incoming e-mail messages before they are downloaded to your Inbox1 and of outgoing mail in the real-time protection mode. In addition, the program provides on-demand scanning and disinfection of e-mail databases of various mail clients2 (see section Protecting your mail from viruses).

Updating of the anti-virus database and program modules - updating of the anti-virus database with information about new viruses and methods used for disinfecting objects infected with these viruses. Updates are downloaded from the Kaspersky Labs update servers or copied from a local folder in your computer.

Recommendations on program setup and operation - tips from Kaspersky Labs experts that will guide you while you use Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal and recommended settings for optimal anti-virus protection.

When infected or possibly infected files are found, if the anti-virus database has been not updated for a critically long time, or your computer has not been scanned for a long time, the main window of Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal will contain recommendations to perform certain actions along with detailed explanations of why you should perform these actions. We have customized our program to achieve optimal performance based on the extensive expertise of Kaspersky Labs experts in the anti-virus protection business and on the feedback received by our Technical Support Service from program users. The recommended anti-virus protection settings are applied after program installation when the program is run for the first time.

Quarantine - a special secure storage area where possibly infected objects are placed. You can then disinfect or delete the quarantined objects, restore them to their initial folders or send them to Kaspersky Labs experts for analysis. Quarantined files are stored using a special format and do not constitute any danger.

Reporting - results of all actions performed by Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal are documented in reports. A detailed scan report contains statistics of all scanned objects, settings used for each task and the history of actions performed on each individual file. Reports are also generated based on the results of updating.