The Kaspersky Security functionality described in this section is available only if the application is installed on a virtual machine with a Windows desktop operating system.
Every time you go online, you expose information that is stored on your virtual machine to viruses and other malware. They can infiltrate your virtual machine while you are downloading free software or browsing websites that are compromised by hacker attacks. Network worms can find a way onto virtual machine as soon as you establish an Internet connection, even before you open a web page or download a file.
Web Anti-Virus protects incoming and outgoing data that is sent to and from the virtual machine over the HTTP and FTP protocols and checks links against the list of malicious or phishing web addresses.
Web Anti-Virus intercepts and analyzes for viruses and other malicious applications every web page or file that is accessed by the user or an application via the HTTP or FTP protocol. The following happens next:
Web Anti-Virus does not support protocols that ensure encrypted data transfer.
You can do the following to configure Web Anti-Virus:
A web address may be the address of a specific web page or the address of a website.