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6.9.2.
Trusted applications
Kaspersky Anti-Virus provides the capability to create a list of trusted applica-
tions whose activity, suspicious or otherwise, or file, network, and system registry
access, is not monitored.
For example, you feel that objects and processes used by Microsoft Windows
Notepad
are safe and do not need to be scanned. To exclude objects used by
this process from scanning, add
Notepad
to the trusted applications list. Howev-
er, the executable file and the trusted application process will be scanned for
viruses as before. To fully exclude the application from scanning, you must use
exclusion rules (see 6.9.1 on pg. 65).
In addition, some actions classified as dangerous are perfectly normal features
for a number of programs. For example, keyboard layout toggling programs regu-
larly intercept text entered on your keyboard. To accommodate such programs
and stop monitoring their activity, you are advised to add them to the trusted ap-
plication list.
Excluding trusted applications can also solve potential compatibility conflicts be-
tween Kaspersky Anti-Virus and other applications (for example, network traffic
from another computer that has already been scanned by the anti-virus applica-
tion) and can boost computer productivity, which is especially important when
using server applications.
By default, Kaspersky Anti-Virus scans objects opened, run, or saved by any
program process and monitors the activity of all programs and the network traffic
they create.
You can create a list of trusted applications on the special
Trusted Applications
tab (see Figure 15). The default list created at install time contains trusted appli-
cations whose activity is not scanned as recommended by Kaspersky Lab. If you
do not trust an application on the list, deselect the corresponding checkbox. You
can edit the list using the
Add
,
Edit
, and
Delete
buttons on the right.
To add a program to the trusted application list:
1. Click the
Add
button on the right-hand side of the
Trusted Applica-
tions
tab.
2. In the
Trusted Application
window (see Figure 16) that opens, select
the application using the
Browse
button. A context menu will open, and
by clicking
Browse
you can go to the file selection window and select
the path to the executable file, or by clicking
Applications
you can go
to a list of applications currently running and select them as necessary.
When you select a program, Kaspersky Anti-Virus records the internal
attributes of the executable file and uses them to identify the trusted
program during scans.
