Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 7.0

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In order to run automatic scan of your computer by Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 7.0 click the Scan button on the tab in the main window:

Once the Scan task is started, the program will detect and automatically delete all known viruses, rootkits, Trojan programs and worms.

By default Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 7.0 scans for viruses Startup objects and Boot disk sectors. In the main window on the Automatic scan tab you can define the scan area by checking the necessary scan areas.

 In order to modify the scan settings, on the Automatic scan tab > in the Settings section > click the Security level area > in the open window click the Customize button.

The General tab: 

• Scan all files. With this option, all objects will be scanned without exception 
• Scan programs and documents (by contents) - this option scans only potentially infected files – files which viruses can intrude. Before searching for viruses in an object, its internal header is analyzed for the file format (txt, doc, exe, etc.). 
• Scan programs and documents (by extension). In this case, the program will only scan potentially infected files, and in doing so, the file format will be determined by extension. 
• Skip if scan takes longer than... sec. Check this option and enter the maximum scan time for an object. Then, if this time is exceeded, this object will be removed from the scan queue 
• Skip if objects are larger than…MB. Check this option and enter the maximum size for an object. Then, if this size is exceeded, this object will be removed from the scan queue. 
• Scan All/New only archives – scan .rar, .arj, .zip, .cab, .lha, .jar, and .ice archives. 
• Scan All/New only embedded OLE objects– scan objects embedded in files (for example, Excel spreadsheets or a macros). 
• Parse e-mail formats – scan e-mail files and e-mail databases. 
• Scan password-protected archives – scans password protected archives. With this feature, a window will request a password before scanned archived objects.

The Heuristic analyzer tab 

• Enable rootkits search – enables scan and detection of the utilities which hide actions of malicious programs in the operating system.
• Enable deep rootkits search – enables more detailed/extended scan of the utilities which hide actions of malicious programs in the operating system. 
• Use heuristic analyzer – a method to detect new malicious programs by the actions they produce in the operating system. The heuristic analyzer can be set to one of the following scan levels: Low, Medium, High.