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A D V A N C E D A P P L I C A T I O N S E T T I N G S
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IM ANTI-VIRUS
This section describes the functions of Kaspersky Small Office Security 2 for Personal Computer. These functions are
missing in Kaspersky Small Office Security 2 for File Server.
IM Anti-Virus scans the traffic of instant messaging clients (the so-called Internet pagers).
IM messages may contain links to suspicious web sites and to the web sites deliberately used by hackers to organize
phishing attacks. Malicious programs use IM clients to send spam messages and links to the programs (or the programs
themselves), which steal users' ID numbers and passwords.
Kaspersky Small Office Security ensures safe operation of various instant messaging applications, including ICQ, MSN,
AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, Google Talk, Mail.Ru Agent and IRC.
Some IM clients, such as Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk, use encrypted connections. To scan the traffic generated
by those programs, you have to enable scanning for secure connections (see page 133).
IM Anti-Virus intercepts the messages checking them for the presence of dangerous objects or URLs. You can select the
types of messages (see page 95) to scan and various scanning methods.
If threats are detected in a message, IM Anti-Virus substitutes this message with a warning message for the user.
Files transferred via IM clients are scanned by the File Anti-Virus (on page 77) component when they are attempted to
save.
IN THIS SECTION:
Enabling and disabling IM Anti-Virus ............................................................................................................................... 95
Creating a protection scope ............................................................................................................................................ 95
Selecting the scan method .............................................................................................................................................. 96
ENABLING AND DISABLING IM ANTI-VIRUS
By default, IM Anti-Virus is enabled, functioning in normal mode. You can disable IM Anti-Virus, if necessary.
To enable or disable IM Anti-Virus, perform the following steps:
1. Open the main application window.
2. In the top part of the window, click the Settings link.
3. In the left part of the window, in the Protection Center section, select the IM Anti-Virus component.
4. In the right part of the window, uncheck the Enable IM Anti-Virus box if you need to disable this component.
Check this box if you need to enable the component.
CREATING A PROTECTION SCOPE
Protection scope is understood as the type of messages to be scanned. By default, Kaspersky Small Office Security
scans both incoming and outgoing emails. If you are sure that messages sent by you cannot contain any dangerous
objects, you may disable the scan of outgoing traffic.