Viruses and solutions

In this section you will find recommendations how to fight malicious programs which cannot be disinfected by Kaspersky Lab’s products. In order to disinfect/remove malicious programs you may have to modify the system registry or use an additional utility. If you failed to find the necessary information or you find these recommendations too complicated or inadequate, please send a request to the Technical Support service via the HelpDesk form.

My Anti-virus Personal/Personal PRO/Kaspersky AntiHacker warns me that my computer has been attacked by the Helkern virus. What do I do about these Helkern attacks?
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Concerning to:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal MP5 (build 5.0.676)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal MP4 (builds 5.0.522 - 5.0.527)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal MP3 (builds 5.0.325 - 5.0.391)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal Pro MP5 (build 5.0.676)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal Pro MP4 (builds 5.0.522 - 5.0.527)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal Pro MP3 (builds 5.0.372 - 5.0.391)

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker 1.8

You can receive such messages from Kaspersky 5.0 Personal/Personal PRO packages and from Kaspersky AntiHacker. This warning window informs you that Kaspersky Anti-virus/Kaspersky AntiHacker successfully repulsed the Helkern attack and there is no more danger for you PC. You can find the description of this virus in the link: Net-Worm.Win32.Helkern.
Remember: if you are not running MS SQL server on your PC, this virus cannot do any harm to your computer.

To disable the warning windows, do the following:

Go to Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 Personal > Settings > Configure Real Time protection > Real-Time Protection settings > check the Do not notify about network attacks option.
IDS system will keep on running, detecting network attacks, repulsing them but you won't receive any pop-up message about this fact.