Recommended setting for System Watcher in Kaspersky Total Security

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It's okay ? Or recommend an adjustment. Thank you.
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Hello,
I cannot understand Spanish but it looks good. To really improve your system security you should look at Kaspersky's Application Control settings, that's were you can do the most work, here is a guide to help you - How to setup Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 for Maximum Protection (Guide) - it's for KIS 2016, but it should work for 2017 as well!

@harlan4096 may also give you some great tips on how to better configure Kaspersky.
 

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In case of module "System Watcher", defaults settings are ok and should not be changed...
@harlan4096, what about the idea of using Application Control to put script interpreters in the High Restricted category? What do you say about that kind of a tweak?

I even put cmd.exe in High Restricted, and everything still works fine, and my apps that use cmd.exe are still able to function normally.
 

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@shmu26: I guess You did that because the last special sample I tested yesterday night that tried to Exploit cmd.exe. We have been testing at MWHub lately some similar/variants samples (usually .doc) that tried the same.

As You can see, in every case KTS2018 (and I guess also K2017 would do the same) in default settings detected the attack and blocked it without having signatures...

If that "strong tweak" is working fine for now for You, that's great... anyway I'm not sure whether You will have any issue in future with any other applications or Windows working, please let us know...
 
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@shmu26: I guess You did that because the last special sample I tested yesterday night that tried to Exploit cmd.exe. We have been testing at MWHub lately some similar/variants samples (usually .doc) that tried the same.

As You can see, in every case KTS2018 (and I guess also K2017 would do the same) in default settings detected the attack and blocked it without having signatures...

If that "strong tweak" is working fine for now for You, that's great... anyway I'm not sure whether You will have any issue in future with any other applications or Windows workings, let us know...
I'm scared, do I return it to the default configuration?
 

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@shmu26: I guess You did that because the last special sample I tested yesterday night that tried to Exploit cmd.exe. We have been testing at MWHub lately some similar/variants samples (usually .doc) that tried the same.

As You can see, in every case KTS2018 (and I guess also K2017 would do the same) in default settings detected the attack and blocked it without having signatures...

If that "strong tweak" is working fine for now for You, that's great... anyway I'm not sure whether You will have any issue in future with any other applications or Windows working, please let us know...
Thanks, and it wasn't because of your latest test, it is just my general paranoia about script interpreters. Whatever my security config may be, I always try to get them under control.
Almost all users could block or restrict wscript and cscript and powershell without any issues, and that will make it really hard for malware to download and run payloads, or hack the registry etc.
The touchy process is cmd.exe. So far, I haven't had any problems, but potentially, it could cause issues.
 
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