Managing Execution prevention
13 September 2022
ID 196367
This Help provides information related to Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Windows. This information may be partially or completely inapplicable to Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Linux. For complete information about Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Linux, please refer to the Help of the solution that includes the application: Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform or Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response.
To manage Execution prevention settings using the command line interface:
- On the device, run a command line interpreter (for example, Command Prompt cmd.exe) with the permissions of the local administrator.
- Using the
cd
command, navigate to the folder where the Agent.exe file is located.For example, you can type the following command
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kaspersky Lab\Endpoint Agent\"
and press ENTER. - Enter one of the following commands and press ENTER:
agent.exe --prevention=disable
, to disable Execution prevention.agent.exe --prevention=show
, to display the current Execution prevention settings in the command line.
Return codes of the --prevention
command:
- -1 – command is not supported by Kaspersky Endpoint Agent version installed on the device.
- 0 – command successfully executed.
- 1 – required argument is not passed to the command.
- 2 – general error.
- 4 – syntax error.
- 9 – invalid operation (for example, an attempt to disable Execution prevention if it is already disabled).