Scan tasks
August 26, 2024
ID 58390
File Anti-Virus and Safe Browsing provide real-time computer protection, but we also recommend that you regularly scan your computer for viruses and other computer security threats. Computer scanning is necessary to prevent the spread of malware that has not been detected by the protection components.
The Kaspersky application contains the following built-in scan tasks:
Full Scan
A virus scan of the computer's memory, startup objects, and all internal disks.
Quick Scan
A virus scan of only critical areas of the computer: memory, startup objects, and system folders.
Custom Scan
A virus scan of a specified object (file, folder, internal disk, or removable disk).
External Disk Scan
A virus scan of external disks that is performed when an external disk is connected to the computer.
When the application performs a scan task, malicious objects are recognized through signature analysis. In addition to signature analysis, the Kaspersky application uses heuristic analysis and other scanning technologies.
Start Full Scan and Quick Scan tasks
You can also run a Full Scan or Quick Scan task on My Kaspersky. For more information about running a computer scan on My Kaspersky, see the My Kaspersky Help.
You can schedule a Full Scan or Quick Scan task.
Schedule a scan task from the Scan window
Schedule a scan task from the Settings window
When an external disk is connected to the computer, the Kaspersky application can automatically start scanning the disk, prompt to scan, or do nothing. You can select one of the options in the settings of the External Disk Scan task.
The Full Scan and Quick Scan tasks already contain scan scopes. While performing the Full Scan task, the Kaspersky application scans the computer's memory, startup objects, and all internal disks. While performing the Quick Scan task, the application scans computer memory, startup objects, and system folders. You can change the scan scope of the Quick Scan task.
Note: You can skip scanning of the read-only system volume to significantly reduce scanning time. By default, the application does not scan the read-only system volume when performing a Quick Scan task and does scan it when performing a Full Scan task.
Enable/disable scanning of the read-only system volume
Add/remove a file or folder to/from the Quick Scan task scan scope
Add an object on the default Quick Scan list to the Quick Scan task scan scope
Disable protection of an object in the Quick Scan task scan scope
If a threat is detected in a file, the application displays a notification and performs the specified action on the object. You can modify the action to perform when an object is detected.
Select the action that the Kaspersky application performs after detecting infected files
Before attempting to disinfect or delete an infected file, the Kaspersky application saves a backup copy for subsequent restoration or disinfection. A file copy appears in Quarantine. You can try to disinfect this file later by using updated anti-virus databases.
Information about the results of scan tasks and all detected objects is logged in a report.
Note: If any errors occur while running a virus scan task, start the task again. If the new attempt to run the scan also results in an error, contact Kaspersky Customer Service.
Information about the progress of each running scan task (percent complete and time remaining) is displayed in the Scan window.