Using Kaspersky Antivirus is more perfect

Internet is becoming more and more dangerous with threats such as viruses, trojans, hackers, keyloggers, malware, spyware . Therefore, you must choose the right anti-virus program and more, have to set up, configure ' This warrior 'is best suited.

Kaspersky AntiVirus is one of the good choices because it is highly rated in the list of current antivirus programs with the ability to find and kill up to 99% of viruses including virus codes and other virus patterns including backdoor / Trojan.

After downloading and installing, Kaspersky AntiVirus (KAV) will operate silently and scan everything that is operating on your PC. Objects, files, documents . will be scanned before access from the user, so when the virus is detected, the system will not be compromised as KAV will quickly summarize them.

The main interface of Kaspersky Antivirus

The main interface of KAV is quite simple with the Protection tab (Figure 1), which includes the main functions of KAV. You can start a quick scan by selecting ' Scan My Computer ' or scanning ' Scan objects ' defined objects (this function is convenient when you have scanned the entire system but added additional drives). new hard disk or floppy disk, CD, DVD) or scan removable drives with ' Scan removable drives '. (You should not be subjective to data from external drives, they can damage your system without being able to recover).

In the same window, we can find the ' Update Now ' link. This function allows updating the latest virus data by connecting to the database from Kaspersky's server via the Internet.

Kaspersky is also different from other antivirus programs in that the database is updated daily, not weekly and monthly. Updating time is also very fast because the database size is only about 3 to 20KB.

The bottom part is Quarantine and Backup. When a virus is found, the infected file will immediately be put in the Quarantine 'zone', meaning they will be strictly "locked up" to avoid access from users, thus unable to spread. OK.

You should also get in the habit of accessing the Quarantine folder and wiping out all the infected files that are being stored there. You will also have access to the Report section, support reporting of KAV activities for you to follow.

Settings tab with quite a lot of settings

- Real-time protection configuration :

Real-Time Protection or real-time protection means that the antivirus program will work in the background of the system and monitor all active processes on the computer. It will silently scan files, emails, macros, scripts to make sure that there are no dangers affecting the system that can get through.

In order for this functionality to work properly, you must tell the antivirus program how to act on different issues. First, check Real-Time Protection mode on the Files , Email , Macros , Scripts and Network tabs.

On the first 3 tabs, Files , Email , Macros , select Protection Level Settings is Recommended . This setup is quite good, providing a high level of security with reasonable use of system resources. If you feel that you are working in a dangerous environment, select High Protection to increase protection but this will reduce the speed of the system. For users who are not connected to the Internet or the network and do not regularly copy data from outside while working with programs with configurations that remain the same each day, it is recommended to use the High Speed ​​setting. It will take up very little system resources.

You can also choose actions when the program finds the virus. Although the best method is to delete the infected files immediately, you should select and determine that the infected file is not important and can be deleted by selecting Prompt User for Action . This way you can put important files but get infected in the Quarantine to find a way to 'clean' them.

In the Network tab, you can choose to receive notifications when a network attack occurs. This option is useful, but sometimes it annoys you a lot because of notifications even while watching a movie.

- Settings in Settings tab : Set up regular scans

In this Configure Scan My Computer tab, users can set up regular system scans. This function is very valuable and useful. You cannot remember correctly the date when the system was scanned and it took time to manually do this. Furthermore, we can set up KAV to not perform system scanning when playing a heavy game or use complex processing programs.

- Updated configuration

All updates will be completed automatically without you having to manually manipulate. Check Schedule Updates to update the latest data. In the Quarantine & Backup Settings section , configure Kaspersky to scan objects after the new virus database has been updated. At the same time, it is also necessary to set a time period for storing infected files and storage capacity for them. These settings depend on the user and the capacity and system resources of each user.

- Additional settings

The Additional Settings section allows you to set up Kaspersky activation as soon as it starts because if you activate it manually, there will be times when you forget and the system will be at risk of attack. In addition, to prevent any problems, check the AntiVirus Scan Status display setting in the System Tray system tray . You can monitor virus scans and activities on your computer. However, this will exploit RAM resources, so your system needs at least 512MB or more of RAM.

Another useful feature is that laptop users can set up Kaspersky without performing a scan when the laptop battery is running low.

- Additional useful settings of Kaspersky Antivirus

Not only apply to Kaspersky but the above instructions, you can customize to apply to many other antivirus programs such as BitDefender Pro 10, NOD32, AVG Pro . and always remember the following 9 general rules when using antivirus programs , is also 9 security rules for your system:

1. Always set the antivirus program to be automatically activated when Windows starts (Startup)

2. If the system resources are strong, always set the highest security mode

3. Regularly scan the virus regularly to ensure that no virus is infected on the system

4. Set up antivirus program to update virus database every day via internet

5. When installing or opening any zipped file, make it a habit to mouse and scan with the previous antivirus

6. Please delete all infected files. 'Erase' or move to the Quarantine section only for important files and documents

7. When reinstalling the operating system, install the antivirus immediately before installing other software or utilities

8. Never connect to the internet when no antivirus program is active

9. Only temporarily lock the antivirus program in the most essential cases as you need the entire system resources to handle a certain task.

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