Anti-Virus settings

Anti-Virus protects your device from viruses and other malware. Anti-Virus includes the following components: protection, scan, and update.

Protection is enabled when the operating system starts up, and is always found in the device's memory. Protection prevents the device from being infected in real time: it scans all files that are opened, saved and launched, and all new applications.

Scan is launched on demand to detect and eliminate threats on your device (such as infected files as they are opened, unopened files, and uninstalled files in archives). Kaspersky Mobile Security allows you to perform a full or partial scan of the device's content. You can choose to scan the device's whole file system, the content of the internal memory, or a specific folder.

Updates to Kaspersky Mobile Security's anti-virus databases and application version (henceforth "updates") ensure that your device protection is up to date.

Kaspersky Mobile Security uses anti-virus databases when searching for malware. The application's anti-virus databases contain descriptions of all currently known malware and methods for their treatment, as well as descriptions of other undesirable malicious objects. For this reason, it is strongly recommended to update the anti-virus databases regularly. If more than 15 days have passed since the last update, the databases are regarded as out of date. Protection will then be less reliable.

As well as the anti-virus databases, Kaspersky Mobile Security allows you to update the application version. Application version updates remove vulnerabilities from Kaspersky Mobile Security, add new functions, or improve existing functions.

Regular updates require an active license to use the application. If the license has expired, updates are not available.

Kaspersky Mobile Security runs updates from Kaspersky Lab's update servers (special websites that contain updates for all Kaspersky Lab products).

Protection mode

Cloud Security Scan

Adware, dialers, and other

Component settings