About Anti-Banner

The Anti-Banner component is designed to provide protection against banners while you browse the web. Anti-Banner blocks banners shown on the websites that you visit and in the interface of some applications. Anti-Banner blocks banners from the list of known banners which is embedded in the Kaspersky Small Office Security databases. You can manage the blocking of banners via the Kaspersky Small Office Security interface or directly in the browser.

By default, banners are allowed on websites from the list of Kaspersky Lab websites. This list is compiled by Kaspersky Lab experts and includes Kaspersky Lab websites and its partners' websites that host Kaspersky Lab advertisements. You can view this list or disable the use of this list if you consider it necessary to block banners on the websites of Kaspersky Lab and its partners.

Information about the operation of Anti-Banner is available in reports.

The following limitations apply to Anti-Banner:

• If the web page on which the banner is located could not be determined, Kaspersky Small Office Security does not block this banner and does not display information about it.
• If the web page on which the banner is located could be determined but could not be matched to any single web page opened in the web browser, Kaspersky Small Office Security blocks the banner or allows the banner to be displayed depending on the information that has been determined. The application displays information about the banner in reports but does not include this information in the Anti-Banner statistics displayed in the browser.
• The Anti-Banner statistics displayed in the browser can include banners blocked the previous time the web pages loaded, including banners blocked previously and loaded again.
• The Anti-Banner statistics displayed in the browser do not include banners that were blocked in dynamic content of a page after a website has been loaded.
• After installing the application over Kaspersky Small Office Security 2016 Maintenance Release 1, the following settings become unavailable for editing via the user interface and take their default values:
  • Use the banner list of Kaspersky Small Office Security
  • Resolve IP addresses to domain names
  • Use the list of blocked URLs
  • Use the list of allowed URLs

  The list that was previously opened by clicking the Configure blocked URLs link is now available by clicking the Blocked banners link in the current version. The list that was previously opened by clicking the Configure allowed URLs link is now available by clicking the Allowed banners link in the current version.

This functionality is unavailable if Kaspersky Small Office Security is installed on a file server.