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SELECTING ACTIONS ON OBJECTS
If an anti-virus scan shows that a file is infected or suspicious, File Anti-Virus' subsequent actions depend on the object's
status and the action selected.
When the scan is complete, the object may be identified as:
 malicious, for example, virus, Trojan;
 potentially infected when the scan cannot determine whether the object is infected or not. The application has
probably found in the file a sequence of code from an unknown virus, or of modified code from a known virus.
By default, all infected objects undergo disinfection, and all potentially infected files are quarantined.
To change the action on an object,
open the application settings window (on page 15) and select the Protection tab (see figure below). In the table
below you can find descriptions of all available File Anti-Virus actions on objects.
Figure 24: Application settings window. File Anti-Virus
Table 1. Descriptions of all available actions on objects
If the action you have selected is…
… when an infected or potentially infected object is detected:
Prompt for action
Kaspersky Anti-Virus will display a warning message with the information
about which malicious code has infected (potentially infected) the file, and
offers you the choice of the following actions. These actions may vary
depending on the object's status.
Block access
Kaspersky Anti-Virus blocks access to the object, but its location will not be
changed. Relevant information is logged in the report. To gain access to an
object, objects in the report should be processed (see section "The Detected
tab" on page 83).