Introduction
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The major functionality of Kaspersky Anti-Virus includes:
•
scanning and analyzing incoming and outgoing e-mail messages
for the
presence of malicious objects. This analysis covers all attributes and at-
tachments of the e-mail message being scanned.
•
processing attributes and attachments of the e-mail message
.
Depending
on the settings selected, the application will disinfect or delete a malicious
object or will add a warning message to such objects.
•
saving backup copies of the message's objects
before an attempt to disin-
fect or delete such object; copies are saved to a special storage for the
consequent restoring which prevents the loss of data. Configurable filters
allow to easily locate the original copies of objects.
•
notifying
the sender, the recipient and the system administrator about a
message that contains a malicious object.
•
maintaining the events log and creating regular reports about the opera-
tion of the application and the status of the anti-virus protection
.
The appli-
cation allows to create reports using built-in templates with the required
level of detail and at the required interval.
•
detecting virus outbreaks as they emerge and notifying about such events.
The application identifies attempts of mass-mailing infected messages
both from the internet and from the computers within the corporate net-
work.
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configuring application settings
depending on the intensity and the nature
of the traffic as well as the characteristics of the hardware installed
(amount of RAM, speed, number of processors, etc.) both in the manual
and in the automatic mode.
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updating the anti-virus database
via internet both in the manual and in the
automatic mode. The anti-virus database can be updated from the
Kaspersky Lab's ftp and http servers.
Anti-virus scan and disinfection of infected objects are per-
formed based on the records of the
anti-virus database
that
contains description of all currently known viruses, methods
used for the disinfection of objects infected with these viruses
and description of potentially dangerous software.
As new viruses appear daily, it is very important to keep your
anti-virus database up-to-date.
The anti-virus database at the Kaspersky Lab's servers is
updated
on an hourly basis
. We recommend that you up-
date the anti-virus database used by your application with the
same frequency (see Chapter 6, page 61).
•
scanning old (previously scanned) messages for the presence of new vi-
ruses each time your anti-virus database is updated
or according to the
