Enabling and disabling protection

By default, Kaspersky Anti-Virus is launched when the operating system loads and protects your computer until it is switched off. All protection components are running.

You can completely or partially disable protection provided by Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

The Kaspersky Lab specialists strongly recommend that you do not disable protection, since this may lead to an infection of your computer and data loss. If it is really necessary, we recommend that you pause protection for the required period of time.

When protection is disabled, all its components become inactive.

This is indicated by the following signs:

In this case, protection is discussed in the context of the protection components. Disabling or pausing protection components does not effect the performance of virus scan tasks and Kaspersky Anti-Virus updates.

You can completely enable or disable protection in the application settings window. You can enable or disable separate application components either in the settings window, or in the main application window.

To completely enable or disable protection:

  1. Open the application settings window.
  2. In the left part of the window, select the Protection Center section, General Settings subsection.
  3. Uncheck the Enable protection box if you need to disable protection. Check this box if you need to enable protection.

To enable or disable a protection component in the settings window:

  1. Open the application settings window.
  2. In the left part of the window, in the Protection Center section, select the component that should be enabled or disabled.
  3. In the right part of the window, uncheck the Enable <component name> box if you need to disable this component. Check this box if you need to enable the component.

To enable or disable a protection component in the main application window:

  1. Open the main application window and select the Protection Center section.
  2. In the left part of the window, left-click the section that comprises the component being enabled or disabled.
  3. Open the action selection menu by clicking the button with the name of the component on it. Select Enable <Component name> if you need to enable this component, or select Disable <Component name> if you need to disable it.

    When enabling a component, the icon on its left goes green, when disabling it, the icon goes grey.

Enabling and disabling protection