How to control the installation of unwanted applications using Application Manager in Kaspersky Total Security 20
Using Application Manager in Kaspersky Total Security, you can find applications or browser extensions on your computer that you don’t use or were installed without your consent. These applications can slow down your computer or change the behavior of your browser.
By default, Application Manager in Kaspersky Total Security:
- Automatically clears checkboxes for the installation of additional applications.
- Warns you about any attempts to install additional applications.
- Hide installation steps that contain advertisements or suggestions to install additional applications.
How to block the installation of unwanted applications
- In the main window of Kaspersky Total Security, click
.
- If you have any difficulties opening the application, see this guide.
- Go to the Protection section and select Application Manager.
- Make sure that the component is enabled and the following checkboxes are selected:
- During installation of applications, automatically clear check boxes for the installation of additional software. Warn about any attempts to install additional programs.
- Do not display installation steps that may contain advertisements and offers to install additional programs.
Kaspersky Total Security will block the installation of unwanted applications, as well as advertisements or offers to install these applications. If you want additional applications to be installed alongside Kaspersky Total Security, clear the checkboxes.
How to start and configure an analysis of installed applications
- In the main window of Kaspersky Total Security, click .
- If you have any difficulties opening the application, see this guide.
- Go to the Protection section and select Application Manager.
- Make sure that the Analyze installed applications and browser extensions checkbox is selected.
- Click Select categories of objects.
- Select categories of applications and browser extensions to analyze.
- Click Save and close the window.
- Click Configure schedule.
- Set a schedule and configure the scan settings.
- Click Save.
Installed applications and browser extensions will be analyzed according to the parameters you have set.
If you want to add an application or extension to the list of exclusions and leave it on the computer, click Ignore in the list of detected objects in the analysis results.
Restrictions and limitations
- On Windows, the Application Manager feature only works on the main disk and when System Watcher is enabled.
- Application Manager monitors and blocks changes to the following settings in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome:
- Change of homepage
- Change of browser search engine
- Change of proxy server settings
- Installation of browser extensions
- The default set of controlled changes can be extended when updating the databases.
- Application Manager does not block changes or display notifications if the changes are made by the following applications:
- Browser
- Default browser settings changing tool
- Standard Windows tools
- An application incompatible with Kaspersky Total Security
- A newer version of Kaspersky Total Security