User manual KASPERSKY LAB ANTI-VIRUS 6.0 SOS

[. . . ] KASPERSKY LAB Kaspersky® Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS USER GUIDE KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 6. 0 SOS User Guide © Kaspersky Lab http://www. kaspersky. com Revision date: July 2007 Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. THREATS TO COMPUTER SECURITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sources of Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How threats spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Now our products use an threat signatures that protect you from malicious and potentially dangerous objects of various types. · Application modules In addition to the signatures, you can upgrade the modules for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS. The main update source for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS is Kaspersky Lab's update servers. To download available updates from the update servers, your computer must be connected to the Internet. If you do not have access to Kaspersky Lab's update servers (for example, your computer is not connected to the Internet), you can call the Kaspersky Lab main office at +7 (495) 797-87-00, +7 (495) 645-79-39, or +7 (495) 956-70-00 to request contact information for Kaspersky Lab partners, who can provide you with zipped updates on floppy disks or CDs. Updates can be downloaded in one of the following modes: · Automatically. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS checks the update source for updates at specified intervals. During virus outbreaks, the check frequency may increase, and decrease when they are gone. If it finds new 74 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS updates, Anti-Virus downloads them and installs them on the computer. With this option, you launch the Updater manually. During updating, the application compares the threat signatures and application modules on your computer with the versions available on the update server. If your computer has the latest version of the signatures and application modules, you will see a notification window confirming that your computer's threat signatures and application modules are up-do-date. If the signatures and modules on your computer differ from those on the update server, only the missing part of the updates will be downloaded. The Updater does not download threat signatures and modules that you already have, which significantly increases download speed and saves Internet traffic. Before updating threat signatures, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. 0 SOS creates backup copies of them, that can be used if a rollback (see 9. 2 on pg. If, for example, the update process corrupts the threat signatures and leaves them unusable, you can easily roll back to the previous version and try to update the signatures later. You can distribute the updates retrieved to a local source while updating the application (see 9. 4. 4 on pg. This feature allows you to update databases and modules used by 6. 0 applications on networked computers to conserve bandwidth. 9. 1. It will run from the update source that you have selected (see 9. 4. 1 on pg. You can start the Updater from: · · the context menu (see 4. 2 on pg. Right click the application icon in the system tray to open the shortcut menu. Select Update. To start the Updater from the main program window: 1. Select Update in the Service section. Program updates 75 2. Click the Update now! [. . . ] You shall not rent, lease or lend the Software to any other person, nor transfer or sub-license your license rights to any other person. You shall not use this Software in automatic, semiautomatic or manual tools designed to create virus signatures, virus detection routines, any other data or code for detecting malicious code or data. Kaspersky Lab may ask User to install the latest version of the Software (the latest version and the latest maintenance pack). You acknowledge and agree that, in addition to detecting harmful and malicious software, the Product may also identify, remove and/or disable potentially harmful products, including those that are regarded or classified as Adware, Riskware, Pornware etc. 1. 1. 6 1. 1. 7 1. 1. 8 1. 1. 9 2. Support1. [. . . ]