A safer and recommended solution is to add the remote access program to the “Trusted applications” list allowing it to interact with Kaspersky’s interface.Ĭlick on Settings from the Kaspersky’s main graphical user interface. While disabling Self-Defense in Kaspersky will allow third party remote access applications to control the program, it is not an ideal solution because this will also potentially allow malicious software that is hiding in the system to terminate or modify the antivirus program. Uncheck the “ Enable Self-Defense” checkbox and the setting takes effect instantly. Select Additional from the left hand sidebar and click on Self-Defense. Kaspersky’s Self-Defense can be disabled by clicking Settings from the main GUI. Since this restriction is due to the self protection system, disabling Kaspersky’s Self-Defense will allow any third party remote access program from controlling the software remotely. As for other remote access software such as Ammyy Admin, ShowMyPC, NoMachine, Radmin, imPcRemoteInstant, Firnass, Google Remote Desktop, GoToMyPC, DameWare Mini Remote Control and RealVNC, they are all prohibited from remotely controlling Kaspersky. Starting from version 2013 onwards, it has started allowing some third party remote desktop applications such as TeamViewer and LogMeIn to remotely control and configure Kaspersky.
While this is a safety feature to protect Kaspersky, it can also be a possible annoyance when an administrator legitimately wants to remotely configure the antivirus or internet software.įrom what we’ve tested, Kaspersky versions 2010, 20 block all remote control programs except for the Remote Desktop Connection that is built-in to Windows from controlling Kaspersky. If you’re connected to a remote computer using a remote access software, you won’t be able to configure and control Kaspersky as the graphical user interface does not respond to mouse clicks. A unique feature found in Kaspersky but is not available in other antivirus such as Avast, Avira, AVG, ESET, Bitdefender and Norton is the ability to prevent most third party remote access software from interacting with the program’s interface.
The example above is only a very basic self defense mechanism and it actually protects much more than that. Other than that, the antivirus must also be very good at protecting itself to prevent its processes from being forcefully terminated or modified by an external application so that it can continue to run on the system and monitor for suspicious activity.Ī simple example is attempting to end the avp.exe process that belongs to Kaspersky using the Task Manager and it shows an “Unable to terminate process” error window with the message “Access is denied”. An antivirus software must be efficient in detecting and blocking a malicious software to ensure that the computer stays safe while connected to the Internet or network.
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