Kaspersky Mobile Security
Anti-Virus
Anti-Virus allows you to detect and neutralize threats on your device by using the application's anti-virus databases and, additionally, the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service. Anti-Virus includes the following components: protection, scan, and update.
Protection detects threats in open files, scans new applications, and prevents device infection in real time.
Scan can be started for the whole file system, RAM, or a certain folder as required. Full scan allows scanning the whole file system for malicious objects; Folder scan scans a specific folder. Full scan and Folder scan detect threats in files that have been installed, but not yet opened, as well as threats in files that are currently open. Memory scan detects threats only in files that are currently open.
Update allows you to download new anti-virus databases and new versions of the application.
Standard tasks:
Full scan of the device file system
In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Scan > Full scan.
Folder scan
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Scan > Folder scan.
- Select the folder to be scanned.
Memory scan
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Scan > Memory scan.
Changing the Protection mode
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Settings.
- Select the Protection mode. To do so, select a value for the Protection mode setting.
Scheduled scans
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Settings > Scan settings.
- Select the frequency for starting scans. To do so, select a value for the Schedule setting.
- Select a day and time for starting scans. To do so, select values for the Start day and Start time settings.
Anti-Virus database and version updates
In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Update.
Scheduled database and version updates
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Virus > Settings > Update settings.
- Select the frequency for starting updates. To do so, select a value for the Schedule setting.
- Select a day and time for starting updates. To do so, select values for the Start day and Start time settings.
Privacy Protection
Privacy Protection allows you to hide confidential contacts, and all related call history and SMS correspondence.
Confidential contacts are saved in the Contacts to hide list.
The application can hide the following information for confidential contacts:
- Phone book entries
- Read or forwarded SMS messages, and SMS drafts
- Call history records
- Incoming calls and notifications about new SMS messages
When Privacy Protection is enabled, the application blocks the signal and notification on receipt of a new SMS message from a private number, and hides the message in the inbox. The application blocks incoming calls from private numbers and does not display incoming call information on the screen. As a result, the caller receives a busy signal. To view incoming calls and SMS messages for a period when Privacy Protection was enabled, Privacy Protection should be disabled. If you re-enable Privacy Protection, your confidential information is again hidden.
You can enable Privacy Protection from within the application, or remotely by sending an SMS command from another mobile device. You can send a standard SMS message with a special code or send an SMS message from Kaspersky Mobile Security if the application is installed on the other device.
You can allow or block the remote start of Privacy Protection on your device. If the remote start of Privacy Protection is blocked, the function cannot be launched remotely using an SMS command.
You can disable Privacy Protection only in the application installed on your device.
Standard tasks:
Hiding contact-related information
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Privacy Protection.
- Create a list of contacts to hide if it was not created previously. The list contains contacts whose details you want to hide. To do so, press Contacts to hide > Add.
- Return to the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security > Privacy Protection and flip the Hide information toggle switch to enabled.
Remote launch of PP
Do one of the following on another mobile device:
- If the other device has Kaspersky Mobile Security installed, create and send an SMS command to your device.
- Create and send an SMS message with the text
hide:<code> , where <code> is the secret code set on your device.
Outgoing SMS messages are be billed at rates charged by the mobile operator serving the other device.
Creating a list of contacts to hide
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Privacy Protection > Contacts to hide.
- Do one of the following:
- To add a contact from the device phone book, press Add > Contact.
- To add a phone number, press Add > Phone number.
Anti-Theft
Anti-Theft protects against unauthorized access to your information stored on the device, and helps to locate the device in the event of theft or loss.
Anti-Theft allows you to remotely lock your device, get its map coordinates, wipe device data, or secretly get the mugshot of the person currently using your device. Furthermore, Anti-Theft allows you to lock your device if the SIM card is replaced or if the device is activated without a SIM card.
You can remotely activate Anti-Theft from any device via the anti-theft.kaspersky.com website or using special SMS commands. You can send a standard SMS message with a special code from another mobile device. If Kaspersky Mobile Security is installed on the other device, you can send an SMS command from the application. To send an SMS command, you need to know the secret code for Kaspersky Mobile Security installed on your device.
You can allow or block remote start of Anti-Theft functions on your device. If the launch of Anti-Theft is blocked, it is impossible to start it remotely.
Standard tasks:
Allow locking the device remotely
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Theft > Device Lock.
- Select the Enable Device Lock check box.
- If necessary, in the Text when locked section, enter the message to be displayed on the screen of the locked device.
Allow deleting data remotely
- On the main screen of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Theft > Data Wipe.
- Select the information to be deleted on receipt of the remote command:
- To delete personal data (such as contacts, SMS correspondence, and calendar) and memory card data, select the Delete personal data check box.
- To delete all data including data on the memory card remotely and revert the device to factory settings, select the Delete all data check box.
Allow locating the device remotely
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Theft > Locate.
- Select the Enable Locate check box.
- If necessary, specify an email address to which you want to receive the coordinates of your device.
SIM card replacement
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Theft > SIM Watch.
- Select the Enable SIM Watch check box.
- Specify an additional telephone number or email address to receive a new telephone number by SMS or email when the SIM card is replaced.
- If required, select the Lock check box to lock the device when the SIM card is replaced or the device is turned on without a SIM card. Specify the text of the message to appear on the screen of the blocked device.
Allow secret mugshots
In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Anti-Theft > Mugshot.
Status of the function becomes Mugshot: on.
Remote launch of Anti-Theft features using SMS commands
Do one of the following on another mobile device:
Outgoing SMS messages will be billed at the rates set by the other mobile device mobile service provider.
Launch of Anti-Theft features via anti-theft.kaspersky.com
- Visit anti-theft.kaspersky.com on a mobile device or computer.
- Log in to the website with your credentials that you used during initial configuration of the application. Use your email address as your user name. If you have forgotten your password, you can recover it.
- Select the tab with the name of the device for which you need to remotely launch the Anti-Theft functions.
- Choose the required action from the section on the left.
Call&SMS Filter
Call& SMS Filter allows you to block unsolicited incoming calls and SMS messages. The application filters calls and SMS messages based on the lists of allowed and blocked contacts and in accordance with the selected filter mode.
Standard tasks:
Blocking unsolicited incoming calls and SMS messages
- Select the contacts whose calls and SMS messages you want to block or allow. To do so, choose the filtering mode. In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Call&SMS Filter > Mode: <current filtering mode>.
- Select the value for the Call&SMS Filter mode setting:
- To block calls and SMS messages only from blocked contacts and allow calls and SMS messages from other contacts, select Blocked contacts.
- To block calls and SMS messages from all contacts and allow calls and SMS messages only from allowed contacts, select Allowed contacts.
- To block calls and SMS messages from blocked contacts and allow calls and SMS messages from allowed contacts, select Standard.
- If necessary, enable additional filtering settings.
For example, if you have selected the Allowed contacts or Standard filtering mode, you can automatically allow calls and SMS messages from contacts in the device phone book regardless of the filtering mode enabled. To do so, select the Allow Contacts check box.
If you have selected the Blocked contacts or Standard filtering mode, you can automatically block SMS messages from numbers that contain letters regardless of the filtering mode enabled. To do so, select the Block non-numeric numbers check box.
- Depending on the mode selected, form the list of allowed and blocked contacts:
- To form the list of blocked contacts, return to the main window. In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security > Call&SMS Filter > Blocked contacts.
- To form the list of allowed contacts, return to the main window. In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security > Call&SMS Filter > Allowed contacts.
Adding a contact to the list of allowed contacts
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Call&SMS Filter > Allowed contacts:
- Press Add.
- Select the types of events that you want to receive from the contact.
- Enter the telephone number of the contact that you want to receive information from. To do so, complete the Allowed phone number field.
You can add a subscriber's number to the list in one of the following ways: indicate the number manually in the entry field, select calls from a subscriber in the call log, or select SMS from a subscriber in the list of incoming messages. To add the number from the list of calls or messages, press .
The phone number should comprise only alphanumeric characters; it may begin with a digit, a letter, or be preceded by the "+" symbol. When entering a number you can also use the "*" and "?" masks (where "*" is any number of symbols, and "?" any one symbol). For example, if the number is *1234? is added to the White List, Call&SMS Filter allows calls or SMS messages from numbers in which any character follows the sequence 1234.
- If you selected SMS as an event type, enter a key phrase to indicate that an incoming SMS message is solicited. To do so, complete the Allowed text field. Call&SMS Filter only allows SMS from this number if they contain the key phrase, and blocks all other SMS from this number.
If you want to receive SMS messages with any content from this number, leave the Allowed text field for this entry blank.
Adding a contact to the list of blocked contacts
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Call&SMS Filter > Blocked contacts:
- Press Add.
- Select the types of events from this contact that you consider to be unsolicited (spam).
- Enter the telephone number of the blocked contact. To do so, complete the Blocked phone number field.
You can add a subscriber's number to the list in one of the following ways: indicate the number manually in the entry field, select calls from a subscriber in the call log, or select SMS from a subscriber in the list of incoming messages. To add the number from the list of calls or messages, press .
The phone number should comprise only alphanumeric characters; it may begin with a digit, a letter, or be preceded by the "+" symbol. When entering a number you can also use the "*" and "?" masks (where "*" is any number of symbols, and "?" any one symbol). For example, if the number is *1234? is added to the Black List, Call&SMS Filter blocks calls or SMS messages from numbers in which any character follows the sequence 1234.
- If you selected SMS as an event type, enter a key phrase to indicate that an incoming SMS message is unsolicited. To do so, complete the Blocked text field. Call&SMS Filter only blocks SMS from this number if they contain the key phrase, and allows all other SMS from this number.
If you do not want to receive SMS messages with any content from this number, leave the Blocked text field for this entry blank.
Web Protection
Web Protection blocks malicious websites, which aim to distribute malicious code, and fake (phishing) websites, which aim to steal your confidential data, such as passwords for online banks, online auctions and payment systems, and gain access to your financial accounts.
Web Protection checks websites before they are opened, using the cloud service Kaspersky Security Network cloud service for this purpose (a special Kaspersky Lab online service that contains information about the reliability of files, applications, and Internet resources).
Web Protection only checks websites in the standard Android browser and does not check them in other browsers.
When it is enabled, Web Protection automatically checks which is the default browser. If Web Protection does not support the current default browser, Web Protection prompts you to change it to the standard Android browser.
To ensure websites are continuously checked, it is recommended to set the standard Android browser as the default browser.
If you do not want to change the current default browser, in order to use personal data on the network safely, launch the standard Android browser.
You can start the standard Android browser from Kaspersky Mobile Security or from the application menu of the device. If Web Protection is enabled, it will block fake websites before they are opened.
Standard tasks:
Enable Web Protection for continuous check of websites
- In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Web Protection.
- Flip theEnable Web Protection toggle switch to enabled.
- Press Change browser (this button is displayed if Web Protection is enabled and does not scan websites in the current default browser).
- Follow the steps of the set default browser wizard.
Using personal data safely
In the main window of Kaspersky Mobile Security, press Web Protection > Open browser.
Additional
You can do the following:
- view information about the current license.
- activate a commercial version of the application or extend the license validity period.
- configure the receipt of notifications and the display of prompts by the application or the widget.
- change the secret code.
- view reports on the operation of the application (for example, reports on scans performed, threats detected, SMS messages, calls or websites blocked).
- view information about the application.
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