Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2006
The following protection components provide defense for your computer in real time:
File Anti-Virus
A file system can contain viruses and other dangerous programs. Malicious programs can be stored in your file system for years after one day making it through on a removable drive or from the Internet without showing themselves at all. But you only need open the infected file, or, for example, try to copy it to a disk, and the virus is instantly activated.
File Anti-Virus - the component that monitors the computer's file system. It scans all files that can be opened, executed or saved on your computer and all attached disk drives. Each file that is accessed will be intercepted by Kaspersky Internet Security and scanned for known viruses. The file can only be used further if the file is not infected or is successfully treated by the Anti-Virus. If a file cannot be disinfected for any reason, it will be deleted, with a copy of the file saved in
backup, or moved to
quarantine.
Mail Anti-Virus
E-mail is widely used by malefactors to spread malicious programs. It is one of the chief means for spreading worms. This makes it extremely important to monitor all mail messages.
Mail Anti-Virus - the component that scans all incoming and outgoing e-mails on your computer. It analyzes e-mails for malicious programs. The e-mail is available to the addressee only if it does not contain dangerous objects.
Web Anti-Virus
When you access websites on the Internet, you risk infecting your computer with viruses that install themselves using scripts on web pages. You could also download a dangerous file onto your computer.
Web Anti-Virus is specially designed to forestall such situations. This component intercepts and blocks scripts on web sites if they pose a threat. All http traffic is subject to careful inspection.
Proactive Defense
With every new day, there are more and more malicious programs. They are becoming more complex, combining several types, and the methods for spreading themselves are become harder and harder to detect.
To detect a
new malicious program before it has time to do any damage, Kaspersky Lab has developed a special component -
Proactive Defense. It is designed around monitoring and analyzing the behavior of all applications installed on your computer. Judging by the actions executed by an application, Kaspersky Internet Security makes a decision. Is the application dangerous? So your computer is protected not only from known viruses, but from new ones as well that still have not been discovered.
Anti-Spy
Spyware has become even more common recently, growing into a large family of programs with various purposes: programs that display advertising without the user requesting it (banner ads and pop-up windows), programs that call numbers for paid Internet services without user authorization, remote administration and monitoring tools, joke programs, etc.
Anti-Spy traces these actions on your computer and blocks them. For example, the component blocks banner ads and pop-up windows, which can irritate the user while on the Internet, blocks programs that attempt autodialing, and analyzes web pages for phishing content.
Anti-Hacker
To invade your computer, hackers use any potential hole, whether it be an open network port, transmitting data from computer to computer, etc.
Anti-Hacker is a component designed for protecting your computer while you are using the Internet and other networks
. It monitors inbound and outbound connections and scans ports and data packets.
Anti-Spam
Although not a direct threat to your computer, spam increases the load on mail servers, fills up your mailbox, and takes up your time, and thereby does financial harm.
The
Anti-Spam component plugs into the mail client installed on your computer and scans all incoming mail for spam subject matter. All e-mails that contain spam are marked with a special header. Anti-Spam can also be configured to process spam as you like (auto delete, move to a special folder, etc.).