Enabling and disabling Self-Defense

The Self-Defense mechanism of Kaspersky Endpoint Agent provides protection from malware that tries to lock the application or delete it. The Self-Defense mechanism prevents alteration or deletion of application files on the hard drive, memory processes, and entries in the system registry.

To enable or disable Self-Defense:

1. Open the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.
2. In the console tree, select the Policies folder.
3. Select Kaspersky Endpoint Agent policy and open its properties window in one of the following ways:
   • Double-click the policy name.
   • Select Properties in the policy context menu.
   • Select the Configure policy settings item in the right part of the window.
4. In the Application settings section select the Security settings subsection.
5. In the Self-defense group of settings, enable or disable the Enable self-defense for application modules in memory setting.

   The setting is enabled by default.

6. In the upper right corner of the settings group, change the switch from Unaffected by policy to Under policy.
7. Click OK.

The Self-Defense mechanism is enabled or disabled.