AMSI Protection settings

[rounakr94]

Can anyone please explain in easy language what these compound file settings do under AMSI Protection and File Antivirus if I need to change these?

I turned on the Scan Archives and Scan Distribution Packages under AMSI as these were unchecked before but left the ones in File Antivirus unchecked.
Also what is this maximum file size? Will antivirus not scan downloaded or usb storage files above 8MB? 

Edited August 17, 2023 by rounakr94

[harlan4096]

Welcome to Kaspersky Community.

 

Check this: https://support.kaspersky.com/help/Kaspersky/Win21.14/en-US/199667.htm

 

Also: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/amsi/antimalware-scan-interface-portal

[rounakr94]

3 minutes ago, harlan4096 said:

Welcome to Kaspersky Community.

 

Check this: https://support.kaspersky.com/help/Kaspersky/Win21.14/en-US/199667.htm

 

Also: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/amsi/antimalware-scan-interface-portal

Okay, so AMSI settings is for third party applications? Am I right?

[harlan4096]

Yeah also, so K. can use it 🙂

[rounakr94]

8 minutes ago, harlan4096 said:

Yeah also, so K. can use it 🙂

Thanks. I turned on Scan Archives and Scan Distribution packages under File Anti Virus. And now its auto scanning downloaded zip and rar files which it wasn't with setting turned off (tested with EICAR Zip).

[harlan4096]

Yes, but enabling that probably may slow down Your system 🙂

[rounakr94]

2 minutes ago, harlan4096 said:

Yes, but enabling that probably may slow down Your system 🙂

My Security Level is already on Extreme from the start so it already consumes a bit more than normal which is fine for me as I have a fairly decent gaming PC, plus it shouldn't consume much resources during gaming because of Game Mode.