Main Application Window: General Structure - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

Application management concepts
3.2.3. Main application window: general
structure
The main window of Kaspersky Anti-Virus is designed for implementation of all
application features, which helps achieve complete anti-virus protection of your
computer. Here you can:
•
start and stop full computer scan and scan of individual drives, folders
and files for viruses and other types of malware;
•
create user-defined objects scan tasks;
•
download updates of anti-virus database, network attacks database and
application modules.
•
configure anti-virus protection settings;
•
manage with quarantined objects;
•
manage copies of objects created in the backup storage before they are
disinfected or deleted;
•
manage reports;
•
control the application's configuration, etc.
All anti-virus protection settings, necessary information, and tasks are grouped in
the following tabs of the main window:
•
Protection – anti-virus protection status and tasks (scanning objects and
updating the anti-virus database). From this tab you can access the
functions that you can use to work with quarantine, backup storage and
reports. This tab is the main tab to be used for managing the application
(see section 3.2.3.1 on page 28).
•
Settings – the status and tasks for defining the main settings of the anti-
virus protection (see section 3.2.3.2 on page 29).
Figure 1. Shortcut menu
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