How to Prevent Riskware Attacks

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Riskware can be difficult to protect against since you’ll have to take caution with any software you use. However, having a helping hand to spot possible risks can make the task easier. To prevent riskware attacks, start your protection off with antivirus software, and support it with safe computer use habits.

Since there may be legitimate reasons why riskware is present on your computer, antivirus solutions may not be able to determine whether a specific item of riskware represents a threat to you. Kaspersky’s products let you decide whether you wish to detect and remove riskware.

Detecting and removing Riskware

There can be many reasons why you suspect that a riskware program has been detected by Kaspersky’s antivirus engine.

For example, if you didn’t consent to the installation of the program and you don’t know where the program came from, or if you’ve read a description of the program on Kaspersky’s website and you now have concerns over its safety. In such cases, Kaspersky’s antivirus software will help you to get rid of the riskware program.

Choosing not to detect Riskware

For cases where riskware programs are detected, but you’re confident that these are programs that you have consented to, you may decide that the riskware programs are not harming your devices or data.

Kaspersky products let you disable the option to detect these programs — or let you add specific programs to a list of exceptions — so that the antivirus engine doesn’t flag this riskware as malicious.