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Account Check

If you are not sure whether your accounts on certain websites are safe, you can check them using the Kaspersky application. The application can detect if your accounts have been compromised and your data is in danger of being publicly accessible.

Note: The Kaspersky application can only check accounts that use an email address as the user name. When Account Check is used, Kaspersky does not receive data in an openly-accessible format, and does not store it. The data is only used for scanning. On detecting a leak, the application does not gain access to the user data itself, but only provides information about categories of data that may be publicly accessible.

The Kaspersky application checks whether the account has been compromised.

If the check discovers that your data could have ended up in the public domain, the application will notify you and display the following information:

• A list of websites from which a data leak could have occurred.
• The date of possible leakage.
• The category of data that may be publicly accessible.

You can learn how to minimize the consequences of a possible leak of this data by clicking a data category.

Check if your account has been compromised

In Kaspersky Plus and Premium, the application can check your email address each time you sign in to your account on websites.

Webcam protection

The Kaspersky application protects your privacy while your Mac is running. You can block your webcam to prevent applications from using it. When you enable this feature, the application blocks access to system libraries that are used by the webcam. You can find examples of applications that cannot access your webcam when it is blocked by the Kaspersky application and the list of supported web cameras on the Technical Support website (Knowledge Base).

Note: The access will be blocked for all applications installed on your computer. You cannot block access to your webcam for specific applications.

Block the webcam

Stop blocking the webcam

Note: If the application that you want to block is running when you block the webcam, you need to restart this application.

Private Browsing

For enhanced protection of your privacy, the Kaspersky application includes Private Browsing, a feature that blocks websites from tracking you. You can also select categories of websites on which you want to block tracking.

Note: The application scans encrypted connections (HTTPS) only if the Check secure connections (HTTPS) for <component names> checkbox in the General section on the Protection tab is selected.

Block website tracking

Stop blocking website tracking

Select categories of websites on which you want to block tracking

When website tracking is blocked, the Kaspersky application blocks tracking activities on websites that belong to the selected categories and monitors tracking activities on websites that belong to the unselected categories. When website tracking is allowed, the application only monitors websites that belong both to selected and unselected categories.

You can add websites to a list of exclusions. When website tracking is blocked, the Kaspersky application doesn't block tracking activities on websites that are in the list of exclusions.

Add/remove a website to/from the list of exclusions

By default, the Kaspersky application doesn't block tracking activities on the websites of Kaspersky and its partners. You can manually enable blocking of tracking activities on the websites of Kaspersky and its partners.

Enable blocking of the websites of Kaspersky and its partners

Some websites are known to be incompatible with the Private Browsing feature. By default, the Kaspersky application doesn't block tracking activities on such websites. You can manually enable blocking of tracking activities on websites known to be incompatible with the Private Browsing feature.

Enable blocking on websites known to be incompatible with Private Browsing