Kaspersky Security uses application databases containing information about known threats and about the methods to neutralize them.
Scanning while using signature analysis ensures the minimum acceptable security level. The Signature analysis and machine learning scan method is used when scanning virtual machines.
If the scan cannot conclusively determine whether or not the file is infected (the file may contain a code sequence that is characteristic of viruses or other malware, or contain modified code from a known virus), Kaspersky Security also assigns the Infected status to the file. If viruses or other malware are detected in a file during scanning of virtual machine files, Kaspersky Security assigns the Infected status to the file. You can set a schedule for running scan tasks, manually run a scan task, and view information about the progress and results of tasks. You can specify individual virtual machines or VMware virtual infrastructure objects of a higher level of the hierarchy. This task lets you run a virus scan on the files of those virtual machines that you specified in the task settings. This task lets you run a virus scan on the files of all virtual machines in your virtual infrastructure.
Kaspersky Security uses the following scan tasks: The settings that Kaspersky Security applies while scanning virtual machines are defined by using scan tasks. Virtual machine files need to be scanned regularly with new anti-virus databases to prevent the spread of malicious objects.
Kaspersky Security lets you run a virus scan on the files of virtual machines on a VMware ESXi hypervisor.