How to enable Protection against screen lockers in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2018
Latest update: December 15, 2017
ID: 13606
Screen lockers are malicious programs that display a banner on the screen which cannot be closed, and then demand a ransom for removing it.
However, you will not necessarily receive an unlocking code if you do what malefactors demand.
If you see a banner with a demand that you send a text message or make a money transfer to unlock the computer, use a keyboard shortcut that will cause Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2018 to detect and remove the screen locker.
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How to unlock the screen using a keyboard shortcut
If your screen is locked by a screen locker, use the preconfigured key combination.
If you have not set custom key combination, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F4 to remove the banner.
Next, run a Full Scan.
You can close the banner manually or by using the key combination, even if protection against screen lockers is disabled.
Ho to configure protection against screen lockers
By default, Protection against screen lockers is enabled.
To set the key combination:
- In the main window of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2018, click the gear button
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- If you have problems opening the application window, see this guide.
- Go to the Protection section in the Settings window and select System Watcher.
- Make sure that the check box Detect and close screen lockers is enabled In the System Watcher settings window.
- Specify the shortcut which will be used as a command for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2018 to detect and remove screen-locking ransomware.
