Working with the program
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To scan a CD or a floppy disk for viruses from the Kaspersky Anti-Virus
main window:
1.
Insert a CD into the CD-ROM drive or a floppy disk into the floppy
drive.
2.
Click
Scan removable drives
in the left frame of the
Protection
tab
(see Figure 2).
After the scan of selected objects is launched, you can view the scanning
percentage in the
Scanning
dialog box (see Figure 4).
Note the following specific features of program performance:
•
If you forget to put a CD or a floppy disk into the drive, or your
CD-ROM drive or floppy drive is disconnected, the scan will fail
without any additional notification.
•
If you put a floppy disk into the floppy drive after you launch the
scan, the program will not scan this floppy disk. The same is true
for CDs and other removable media.
•
If you have taken a floppy disk out of the floppy drive or discon-
nected the floppy drive during scanning, the program will report an
error but will not provide any additional notification. After this, the
program will scan the next removable drive if such exists on your
computer.
5.3. Real-time protection
Real-time protection
means a mode of the Anti-Virus operation wherein it
constantly resides in computer RAM, monitoring all calls to file system objects
and actions of potentially dangerous VBScript and JavaScript scripts as well as
macro commands used in office applications and detects potentially dangerous
software.
Before access to an object is granted, the program scans it for viruses, and, if a
virus is detected, it disinfects or removes the object or blocks access to it
(depending on the settings you have defined). Thus, the application allows
detection and removal of malicious code prior to actual system infection.
By default, real-time protection remains active from the moment that the
operating system is loaded until you finish working with the computer.
Information about the current status of real-time protection is displayed in the
right frame of the
Protection
tab (see Figure 2) in the Kaspersky Anti-Virus main
window.
