About Application Startup Control rules

An Application Startup Control rule is a group of settings required for operation of the Application Startup Control component:

For each Application Startup Control mode, you need to create separate rules and select the action that Application Startup Control must take when it detects an attempt to start an application that is not allowed by the rule: inform about the startup of the application or block the startup of the application.

Status of Application Startup Control rules

Application Startup Control rules can have one of three status values:

When created, an Application Startup Control rule is enabled by default (the rule has On status). You can disable the Application Startup Control rule. If an Application Startup Control rule is disabled, the application temporarily stops applying the rule.

Predefined Application Startup Control rules

After Kaspersky Security is installed, the following Application Startup Control rules are created for the "Allowlist of applications" operation mode by default:

Managing Application Startup Control rules

You can manage an Application Startup Control rule as follows:

You cannot edit or delete predefined Application Startup Control rules.

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