CHAPTER 13.
PROGRAM
UPDATES
Keeping your anti-virus software up-to-
date is an investment in your computer‟s
security. Because new viruses, Trojans, and malicious software emerge daily, it
is important to regularly update the application to keep your information constant-
ly protected.
Updating the application involves the following components being downloaded
and installed on your computer:
Anti-virus databases and network drivers
Information on your computer is protected using the application databases.
The software components that provide protection use the database of threat
signatures to search for and disinfect harmful objects on your computer. The
databases are added to every hour, with records of new threats and me-
thods to combat them. Therefore, it is recommended that they are updated
on a regular basis.
In addition to the threat signatures, network drivers that enable protection
components to intercept network traffic are updated.
Previous versions of Kaspersky Lab applications have supported
standard
and
extended
databases sets. Each database dealt with protecting your
computer against different types of dangerous objects. In Kaspersky Anti-
Virus you don‟t need to worry about selecting the appropriate databases set.
Now our products use databases that protect both from malware and risk-
ware.
Application modules
In addition to the application databases, you can upgrade the modules for
Kaspersky Anti-Virus. New application updates appear regularly.
The main update source for Kaspersky Anti-Virus
is Kaspersky Lab‟s update
servers. To download available updates from the update servers, your computer
must be connected to the Internet.
Your computer has to be connected to the Internet to be able to download up-
dates from update servers. In that event that connection to the Internet is through
a proxy server, you will need to configure connection settings (see 15.7 on pg.
178).
