CHAPTER 4.
KASPERSKY ANTI-
VIRUS MONITOR
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Monitor (Kaspersky AV Monitor) is a memory-resident
program that monitors files when they are accessed. Whenever somebody refers
to an object, the monitor checks the object to make sure that it is free of viruses.
If the object is found to be infected, the program will attempt to disinfect the
object, delete it, move it to a quarantine folder or allow it to be accessed,
depending on the options that were selected. In this way the anti-virus monitor
allows you to detect and delete viruses before the system is actually infected.
Here we must note that there is more than one term describing programs similar
to the Kaspersky Labs Anti-Virus Monitor. For example, they are sometimes
called resident scanners, anti-virus filters, on-access scanners, etc.
4.1.
How to start, disable and enable
your AV Monitor
There are several ways to start your anti-virus monitor. Your Kaspersky AV
monitor can be started:
Option 1: From the Windows
Start
menu. To do this, click the
Start
button on
your Windows desktop, point to
Programs
, point to
Kaspersky Anti-Virus,
then click the
Kaspersky AV Monitor
command. The monitor icon
will
appear in the system tray. Click this icon with your right mouse button to
display the monitor system menu (see subchapter 4.2.1).
Option 2: Automatically. The Kaspersky AV Monitor can be loaded automatically
when you start your computer if you add the program to the
Startup
folder of
the Windows
Start
menu.
Option 3: From Kaspersky AV Control Centre. If you install Kaspersky AV Control
Centre and set your anti-virus monitor to start automatically, the program will
be started right after you start Kaspersky AV Control Centre. However, in
this case the monitor icon will not appear on the taskbar.
Option 4: By entering the appropriate command in the command line. To do this,
go to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus directory and execute the
avpm.exe
file.
If your anti-virus monitor is enabled, you can see the icon
in the
system tray: