Logged user data

When Kaspersky Scan Engine runs diagnostic logging, some user data may be stored locally in the log files created by Kaspersky Scan Engine. The data is added to the log files without making any changes. Kaspersky Scan Engine does not edit or alter this data, or otherwise send it anywhere. Logged data is stored locally on your computer with the running copy of Kaspersky Scan Engine in the location specified by the kave.ini file.

If protection of logged data is important to you, you must implement a method of protection yourself. For example, you may want to grant only specific user accounts access to the logged data.

The following types of user data are written in a plain text format to log files:

• Paths to scanned objects
• Scanned URLs
• Addresses of scanned memory blocks
• Contents of the Kaspersky Scan Engine user agent string:
  • Version of the user agent string format
  • Identifier of Kaspersky Scan Engine
  • Licensing mode
  • Identifier of the license
  • Update session identifier
  • Full version of Kaspersky Scan Engine: major, minor, build, revision, and hotfix

If Kaspersky Scan Engine uses a proxy to establish connection to the Internet, Kaspersky Scan Engine also may log the following information:

• Proxy server IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or host name
• Port number of the proxy server
• User name for the proxy authentication

Kaspersky Scan Engine does not log passwords for the proxy authentication.