Anti-Malware
The Anti-Malware section contains the settings for 3 different components: Files and Memory, E-mail and IM, Web Traffic.
Enable Anti-Malware: turns on/off the Anti-Malware monitoring system. By unchecking this box, you will stop all the three components of the Anti-Malware protection system. Disabling the Anti-Malware real-time protection is not recommended, as it will expose your computer to serious security risks.
You can also turn on/off individual components, by checking/unchecking one or more of the boxes listed in the Anti-Malware section.
The disabled components will appear greyed out in the main window. The status bar at the top of the window and the traffic lights will turn red (or yellow, depending on how important the disabled component is for your system security) and a warning message will appear indicating that your computer security is at risk.
A notification window will also be displayed above the system tray, informing you that some components are disabled. You can click on the Resume all link to resume all the disabled components.
Files and Memory
This component scans files in real time as they are executed, opened or saved.
E-mail and IM
This component scans sent and/or received e-mails at protocol level (POP3, SMTP, IMAP, MAPI, NNTP).
Web Traffic
This component scans HTTP web traffic for viruses and blocks dangerous scripts (JavaScript, Visual Basic Script etc.).
For each component, you can specify the preset security level and the default action to be performed when an infected or potentially infected object is detected.
Security Level: you can choose between High, Recommended and Low. The higher the level is, the more significant the impact on object processing time will be.
On detection: you can choose between Prompt for action (a dialog box will appear prompting you for action) or Do not prompt (KIS will automatically take an action on the event according to the current settings).
Selecting the Do not prompt item, will bring up some additional options: Disinfect (KIS will try to repair the infected object), Delete (KIS will delete the infected object), or neither of them (KIS will only block the infected object without altering it).
When the Disinfect action is set as default, the Delete option will turn into Delete if disinfection fails: in this case you can select both the actions.
If you previously checked the Select action automatically box in the Protection section, then the On detection value will be set to Select action automatically.
The On detection menu for the Web Traffic protection contains only 3 items: Prompt for action (or Select action automatically), Block download, Allow download.
Click on the appropriate Settings… button to access the options for a specific component.
