Enabling and disabling external management defense

Protection against external management allows you to prohibit Kaspersky Endpoint Security managing using remote administration applications (such as TeamViewer or RemotelyAnywhere). The technology serves the following purposes:

• Protection against modification of Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings.
• Protection against management of Kaspersky Endpoint Security services (such as the AVP service).
• Protection against stopping application processes.

Protection against external management is available only for computers running 32-bit operating systems. Technology is not available for computers running 64-bit operating systems.

To enable or disable protection against external management:

1. In the main application window, click the button .
2. In the application settings window, select Advanced settings → General.
3. Use the Allow managing Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings via remote control applications check box to enable or disable protection against modifications of Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings. If you use remote administration applications, you should allow management of Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings and add the applications to the trusted list. Untrusted remote administration applications are not allowed to modify Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings even when the Allow managing Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings via remote control applications check box is selected. This check box is unavailable when the Enable Self-Defense check box is selected.
4. Use the Enable external service control check box to enable or disable the protection of Kaspersky Endpoint Security services against external management.

   To quit the application from the command line, disable the protection of Kaspersky Endpoint Security services against external management.

5. Save your changes.

As a result, when external management defense mechanisms are enabled, Kaspersky Endpoint Security prevents the mouse pointer from getting pointed at the application icon. When a remote user attempts to shut down an application service, a system window with an error message appears.