Managing Antivirus Services

Kaspersky Antivirus deploys and uses the following services on your system:

SMTP scanner and Kaspersky Antivirus Engine check the mail for viruses and provide mail filtering. The KeepUp2Date service retrieves and installs updates for virus definitions.

To view the status of these services and start, stop or restart them if required:

  1. Go to Modules > Kaspersky Antivirus. A list of services opens.

    An icon in the S (status) column shows if a service is running, and if a service is stopped.

    Note:

    To view the real-time mail scanning log, click an icon in the L column to the left of the SMTP Scanner link.

    To view the log for virus definitions updates, click an icon in the L column to the left of the KeepUp2Date link.

    To view the information about the number of virus definitions and license keys used, click an icon in the L column to the left of the Kaspersky Antivirus Engine link.

  2. To start, stop, or restart a service, click the icon , , or , respectively.

In this chapter:

Viewing Logs