How To Setup Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 for Maximum Protection

Known for being a power user’s antimalware tool, Kaspersky has quietly evolved its Kaspersky Internet Security software into a somewhat kinder, gentler application more suitable for the masses.It this tutorial I will show you how to improve the protection offered by Kaspersky Internet Security 2011.

If the box is checked, Web Anti-Virus blocks access to the websites which have been considered as suspicious or phishing ones by Kaspersky URL Advisor. If Web Anti-Virus cannot return a clear verdict on safety of the website to which a link directs, you will be offered to load this website in Safe Run. When activated in Safe Run, malicious objects do not impose any threat to your computer.

Web Anti-Virus allows to download websites in the safe environment for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

If the box is unchecked, Web Anti-Virus does not block access to known suspicious websites automatically.

Read : How to enable “Block dangerous web sites “

Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 can detect hundreds thousands of malware programs that may reside on your computer. Some of these programs impose a greater threat for your computer, others are only dangerous when certain conditions are mett.Follow this tutorial and select all the threats to be detected.

Read : How to enable detection of other malicious programs in Kaspersky Internet Security 2011

When Kaspersky Internet Security runs scan tasks, this may result in increased workload on the CPU and disk subsystems, which impacts other applications’ performance. By default, if such a situation arises, Kaspersky Internet Security pauses virus scan tasks and releases system resources for the user’s applications.

Web Anti-Virus in Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 contain a new technology Geo Filter. Geo Filter is designed to block access to web sites on the grounds of their belonging to regional web domains avoid web sites from the most infected regional domains. This allows you to block access to websites which belong to regional domains with a high risk of infection.

The domain is recognized as blocked in the following cases:

• access to the domain is blocked according to the Web Anti-Virus settings configured by a user
  last access to the domain was blocked by a user
• If Geo Filter detects an attempt to access to a web site from the blocked region, the corresponding message appears.

Read : How to configure Geo Filter in Kaspersky Internet Security 2011

When working with online banking, the user needs special protection, since leakages of confidential information may lead to financial losses. Web Anti-Virus can control access to the resources that you use when working with online banking, downloading them in a safe browser, thus ensuring advanced protection. Web Anti-Virus automatically defines which web resources are online banking services. For guaranteed identification of a web resource as online banking service, you can specify its URL in the corresponding list.

Read : How to configure Online Banking in Kaspersky Internet Security 2011

One of the core components of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 is the Application Control feature.By tweaking the settings you can drastically improve the degree of protection offered by Kaspersky
Because we will be using “Application Control” to further protect our computer we will want to known when an applications is placed in a restricted group.

How to get notifed when a applications is placed in Restricted Group.

• Go to Settings and select Advanced Settings.
• Click on Notifications and select Settings
• In Minor notifications , check Applications Placed in Restricted Group. Click OK.

 

This are two ways to improve Kaspersky overall protection:

If you decide to use this method , Kaspersky will put every application which isn’t on their whitelist or digitally signed in the “Untrusted” category.Kaspersky Internet Security will block any actions performed by programs that are in the “Untrusted” Group

Be aware that safe programs who aren’t in Kaspersky whitelist or aren’t digitally signed might be placed in the “Untrusted” group so if a program fails to start, you might have to manually move it away from the “Untrusted” group to make it work.
This method will secure yout computer from 0-day threats, but it will also require the user to be more knowledgeable about which unknown executables should be allowed to run and to be prepared to manually configure this.

1. How to set unknown programs to “Untrusted”
   • Go to Kaspersky Internet Security “Settings”
   • Select “Application Control”
   • In the “For unknown application:” section change the settings from “Use the heuristic analysis to define group” to “Move to the following group automatically” and select “Untrusted”.
     
   • Click “Apply” and “Ok”
2. How to move a non-malicious program from the “Untrusted” group.
   So you’ve setup Kaspersky to not trust the unkwown programs, but KIS puts a legit program in the “Untrusted” group.
   So how can you move it to the Trusted? 

   NOTE : Before moving a program from “Untrusted”to “Trusted” make sure is 100% safe.

   How to move a non-malicious program from the “Untrusted” group.

   • Go to Kaspersky Internet Security “Settings”
   • Select “Application Control” and click on “Applications..”
     
   • In the new window , you will see an “Untrusted” folder , click on it to expand the view.
     
   • Click on the program that you want to move to “Trusted” and right click on it. Select “Move to group:” > “Trusted”

   

When you enable the Interactive Mode , Kaspersky will notify you of all hazardous and suspicious events. So you may get some alerts from Kaspersky but nevertheless this a pretty powerful barrier against unknown applications and threats because it allows you to control its execution strongly.

How To Enable Kaspersky’s Interactive Mode

• Go to Settings and select “General Settings”
• In the “Interactive Protection” section , uncheck “Select action automatically”.
• Click ” Apply” and “Ok”

• Full Scan -> Settings
  Scope > All files. Enable Scan only new and changed files.
  Additional > Heuristic Analysis > Deep Scan. Rootkit Scan > Enable Detailed/Deep Scan.
  In Scan Scope/Objects to scan -> Add -> Disk boot sectors.
• Critical Areas Scan / Quick Scan ->Settings:
  Scope > All files. Enable boxes: Scan all files, Scan all installation packages, Scan all embedded OLE objects.
  Additional > Heuristic Analysis > Deep Scan. Rootkit Scan -> Enable Detailed/Deep Scan.
  In Scan Scope/Objects to Scan: Add (if not) > System Backup storage.
• Objects Scan/Custom Scan -> Settings:
  Scope > All files.
  Additional > Heuristic Analysis – Deep scan. Rootkit Scan > Enable Detailed/Deep Scan.