Local Interface; System Tray Icon - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

Application management concepts
A Policy is a set of application settings pertaining to its operation in a logical
network group and a set of restrictions for redefining these parameters when
configuring the application or a task.
A policy includes parameters required for complete configuration of the
application's functionality, and includes both application settings and settings for
all types of tasks, except for parameters that must be defined each time a
specific task is started.

3.2. Local interface

Kaspersky Anti-Virus has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. This section
contains a detailed description of its main elements: the system tray icon, right-
click menu, main window, and some service windows.

3.2.1. System tray icon

After the application is launched, the application icon appears in the system tray;
the icon appearance depends on the status of anti-virus protection, indicating
whether the real-time protection is enabled or on-demand scan has been started.
If the icon is enabled
being monitored by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. If the icon is disabled
this means that the real-time protection is disabled (for example, if you
suspended the real-time protection, disabled the real-time file protection feature
or disabled the technology during the installation).
If a full computer scan, a scan of an individual file, drive or a real-time mode
analysis of an object is in progress, the system tray icon
scan is indicated by icon
of the application modules updates, the icon changes to
If animation of the system tray icon is disabled in the additional settings
of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (see section 5.10.4 on page 112), the icon will
be either enabled or disabled.
If an important anti-virus event occurs, an informational message box appears for
some time above the icon and displays a recommendation from the experts of
Kaspersky Lab (this feature is not available in Microsoft Windows98/NT).
(red color), this means that all files in your computer are
. During downloading of the anti-virus database or
(gray color),
is blinking. Mail
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