Enabling and disabling protection of shared folders against external encryption

By default, protection of shared folders against external encryption is enabled.

After Kaspersky Security is installed, the protection of shared folders against external encryption will be limited until the virtual machine is restarted.

To enable or disable protection of shared folders against external encryption in Kaspersky Security Center:

  1. Open Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.
  2. In the Managed devices folder of the console tree, open the folder with the name of the administration group to which the relevant protected virtual machines belong.
  3. In the workspace, select the Policies tab.
  4. Select a Light Agent for Windows policy in the list of policies and open the Properties: <Policy name> by double-clicking.
  5. In the policy properties window, select the System Watcher section in the list on the left.
  6. In the right part of the window, in the General settings section, do one of the following:
    • Select the Enable protection of shared folders against external encryption check box if you want Kaspersky Security to monitor operations performed from a remote device on files in shared folders.
    • Clear the Enable protection of shared folders against external encryption check box if you do not want Kaspersky Security to monitor operations performed from a remote device on files in shared folders.
  7. Click the Apply button.

To enable or disable protection of shared folders against external encryption in the local interface:

  1. On the protected virtual machine, open the application settings window.
  2. In the left part of the window, in the Anti-Virus protection section, select System Watcher.

    In the right part of the window, the System Watcher component’s settings are displayed.

    If the settings in the local interface are not available, this means that the values of settings defined by the policy are used for all protected virtual machines of the administration group.

  3. Do one of the following:
    • Select the Enable protection of shared folders against external encryption check box if you want Kaspersky Security to monitor operations performed from a remote device on files in shared folders.
    • Clear the Enable protection of shared folders against external encryption check box if you do not want Kaspersky Security to monitor operations performed from a remote device on files in shared folders.
  4. To save changes, click the Save button.
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