Scanning archives

Kaspersky Anti-Virus scans archives if the Maximum Protection or Recommended protection level is selected and if these archives have not been previously excluded from the scope of the scan (see section Troubleshooting on-demand scan).

Kaspersky Anti-Virus scans all objects contained within archives, but disinfects only zip, arj, cab and rar archives. Self-extracting archives are not disinfected! If a virus is found within a self-extracting archive, the archive will be deleted.

If an archive or an object within an archive is protected with a password, you will be prompted for the password before scanning continues.

You can enable or disable the prompt for password by checking the Do not ask for password when scanning objects box in the Troubleshooting window accessible via On-Demand Scan settings.

Entering password to scan an archive

In the Enter your password field, enter the password required to access this archive or an object within this archive and click ╬╩. The archive, and all objects contained within it, will be scanned after the password is entered.

While processing objects within archives, Kaspersky Anti-Virus unpacks an archive to a temporary folder, scans the objects, processes them, packs them into a new archive with the same name and copies this new archive to the initial location of the original archive, thus overwriting the existing original archive. A similar procedure is used for processing password-protected objects within archives. Note that after the objects have been processed, they will be packed into a new archive with no password.

If another password-protected archive is found within the archive being scanned, Kaspersky Anti-Virus tries to apply the password used to access the first (containing) archive to the second (contained) archive. You will only be asked to enter a new password if the password is invalid.

If you do not want to scan a particular password-protected object within an archive, click the Skip button and proceed with the scan.

If you do not know the password, the application will be unable to scan this password-protected archive and the objects contained within it. We recommend that you click Skip and proceed with the scan.

When you check the Apply to all password-protected objects within this session box the action that you select after checking this box will be applied to all password-protected objects.

For example, if you check this box and click Skip archive button, all password-protected archives will be skipped during this scan.

If you enter the password, check the box and click the OK button, then this password will be automatically used to access all password-protected objects within all archives in this session. If the password is invalid for a certain object, that object will be skipped.